A rail of wet grass and marsh edges, with brown upperparts and a gray face and breast. It searches for food in damp cover.
It has brown upperparts, a gray face, breast, and belly, and a yellow base to the bill. It may pump its tail as it moves.
It searches for food in rice fields, wet scrub, and reedbeds. It can emerge from cover and walk along open wet edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.