The Brown-backed Mockingbird inhabits grasslands and shrub-filled ravines in Argentina’s puna and pre-puna. It has a brown back, white eyebrow, and white markings on the wings.
The back is cinnamon-toned brown, with a white eyebrow. The belly is whitish ochre, and the black wings have white bars or tips.
It occurs in the dry grasslands of the puna and pre-puna and in shrubby ravines. Its open, half-spherical stick nest is supported in a shrub.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.