Its throat, breast, and belly are bright cinnamon-buff and the undertail coverts have pale buff fringes.

It is found from Bolivia's La Paz and Cochabamba departments south into northwestern Argentina's Salta and Tucumán provinces.

It generally inhabits humid slopes of grass and dense shrubs and the edges of cloudforest.

As of early 2022, Xeno-canto and Cornell University's Macaulay Library each had a single recording.

Though its population size is not known it is believed to be stable, and no specific threats have been identified.

[1] It is considered overall to be rare but locally common and occurs in two national parks in Argentina.