Characterization: Species measuring about 16 cm. With a long tail, graded and soft, a short wing, and round, thin beak. It has a brown cap and wings, an olive-brown tail like its back, its lower parts have varied colors, and it has a usually distinct black gular spot.

Distribution: It occurs in Bahia, Espírito Santo, and from Minas Gerais to Rio Grande do Sul, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay.

Habitat: It inhabits fields and bush areas, forest edges, high fields, and areas close to human dwellings.

Habits: This bird lives hidden in bushes and areas with low secondary growth mixed with thatch. It usually jumps or sneaks around in denser vegetation, perching on a bush to sing.

Diet: It feeds on the lower branches, at times jumping down to the ground to eat insects it catches in short flights.

Breeding: Its nest is a dense, long pile of sticks, mostly thorny, and often covered with snake and lizard skins; side access takes place through a horizontal corridor leading straight to the center of the next; above the hatching area there is a remarkable accumulation of chunks of bark and branches.

In the UFRA area: On the UFRA farms, it occurs on the edges of Restored Forests and Mixed Forests.