[2] The specific epithet of the stripe-faced wood quail commemorates José Ballivián, President of Bolivia at the time of the naming.

The male has a brown face with a patch of bare red skin around the eye and a black line under it.

[4] The stripe-faced wood quail is found on the east slope of the Andes in southeastern Peru's Cuzco and Puno Provinces and western Bolivia's La Paz and Cochabamba Departments.

[4] No information about the stripe-faced wood quail's foraging behavior or diet has been published.

The stripe-faced wood quail's advertising call is "a rapidly repeated 'whydlyi-i, whydlyi-i....'" given by both members of a pair.