It lives in rocky mountain grassland and searches the ground for insects and other small invertebrates. The male has bold facial and chest markings.
The adult male is mainly gray and black, with white eyebrow and cheek stripes and orange-rufous underparts. The female has a paler throat and overall duller markings.
On steep, rocky montane grassland it scratches through the ground for insects and other small invertebrates. It runs between pauses.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.