Its head and upper neck are dusky, its throat is white, and its brown body has whitish specks on the wings and back. It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes and usually walks alone on the forest floor.
It has a dusky head and upper neck, a white throat, and whitish specks on the brown wings and back.
In humid Yungas forest it favors forest floors with deep leaf litter and sparse undergrowth. It is shy and usually solitary; seeds are known to be part of its diet.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.