This small dove is brown overall, with conspicuous yellow-orange bare skin around the eyes. It inhabits rocky shrub steppe in northwestern Argentina and nests on the ground.
It is brown overall, with a black bill and yellowish legs. Bare skin around the eye is yellow-orange, and the outer tail feathers have white tips.
It lives in rocky shrub steppe and builds its nest on the ground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.