Its gray body, rufous crown, and black-and-white facial stripes are distinctive. It forages in humid scrub and forest-edge undergrowth on the eastern slope of the Central Andes, including Peru.
The body is mostly gray, with black sides to the head and a rufous crown. It has a whitish throat and a bold white cheek stripe bordered by black, as well as white spots on the forehead.
On the Peruvian eastern slope of the Central Andes, it forages in humid scrub, dwarf forest, forest-edge undergrowth, and bamboo.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.