Characterization: Small species measuring about 14 cm in length. It has a front tuft and the long tail feather. The female is dark-green with only a sketchy tuft. When it vocalizes in the ceremonies, it moves the tuft to cover its beak. It is extremely quarrelsome.

Distribution: Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Mato Grosso, Goiás, western Minas Gerais, Paraná, and Paraguay and São Paulo.

Habitat: Gallery forest, clumps, woods and marshy lands in Moriche palm groves.

Habits: When it vocalizes in the ceremonies, it moves the tuft to cover its beak. It is extremely quarrelsome.

Diet: Small fruit and insects, usually captured at distances ranging from a meter from the ground all the way up to the treetops.

Breeding: It reproduces from July to November. Nuptial exhibition is common in this family, and it is done by the males, which display colorful feathers, steps, jumps, and make stunts. It mates with at least one female and remains in the territory during the entire breeding cycle. Hatching the eggs and caring for the hatchlings is the mother's job, who also builds the nest in the male's area. Nevertheless, the male is always active, around, and even keeping competitors at bay. There are two eggs per season. It takes about five months for the hatchlings to grow up and leave the nest. It lays its eggs in closed nests built on the ground with side entrances.

In the UFRA area: This bird is not common and is found in the San Francisco Sugarmill farms in Mixed Forests and in Forests in Regeneration.