Characterization: Small species measuring about 14 cm in length. It has reddish backs, wings, and tails, yellowish lower portions, and a posterior neck displaying a black stain highlighted in white in its anterior area.

Distribution: From southeast Pará, Maranhão and Piauí to Mato Grosso, Goiás, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and northwestern Argentina and Bolivia.

Habitat: Lower stratum of low forests and savannas.

Habits: A diurnal species, it bounces around the ground and takes flight only as a last resort, flying at little height to the nearest thicket.

Diet: Carnivorous, feeding on insects and their larvae, spiders, harvestmen and other arthropods, mollusks, etc.

Breeding: This bird lays up to 3 eggs in a nest consisting of a pile of dry and hard branches with one or two chambers and an entrance through a tunnel, which may be long, tortuous, lateral, superior or inferior. Inside the nest there is a kind of mattress, made of fluffy material.

In the UFRA area: In the studies done at the São Francisco Sugarmill areas, this bird's distribution was limited to drainage ditches. As it was only seen once, it is considered rare within these farms.