This small bird lives in the lower Marañón region of northern Peru. It has a gray head and breast, a brownish back, and a pale belly, and searches near the ground along woodland edges and in scrub.
Adults have a gray head and breast, brownish back, pale belly, and a dark facial stripe.
It forages near the ground at deciduous-woodland edges and in scrub.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.