The former, however, turned out to be not distinct from the nominate but rather individual birds that showed a particular color morph which is now known to also occur elsewhere.

[7] It is found in southeastern Bahia, eastern Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, eastern Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Santa Catarina, and northern Rio Grande do Sul states.

[8][9] Like other tinamous, it lays oddly-shaped eggs with a glossy, colorful shell,[6] and it eats fruits, and seeds off the ground or low plants.

Males will incubate the eggs which are in a nest on the ground, and will also rear the young for the short period of time before they are independent.

[8] It readily inhabits secondary forest and can be not uncommon in extensively used plots, tolerating selective logging to some degree.

But the birds can be plentiful enough to withstand some hunting for example in a mosaic of cabruca smallholder plantings, interspersed with secondary growth with dense caeté Marantaceae and Merostachys bamboo understorey as well as higher Guadua bamboo and full-grown heart-of-palm trees (Euterpe edulis).