The White-faced Quail-Dove occurs patchily in mountains from southern Mexico through northern Central America. It walks on the forest floor, and adults show a gray crown, a pale face, and chestnut upperparts.
Adults have a gray crown, a pale grayish-buff face and throat, and chestnut hindneck and upperparts. The back can show a bluish-violet gloss.
It usually walks on the ground alone or in pairs, searching for food in dense cover. Its diet has not been well documented; seeds and fallen fruit are suggestions rather than confirmed items.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.