Elusive Antpitta

Grallaria antpittas are a "wonderful group of plump and round antbirds whose feathers are often fluffed up...they have stout bills [and] very short tails". The elusive antpitta is 17 to 19 cm (6.7 to 7.5 in) long; three specimens weighed 111 to 115 g (3.9 to 4.1 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a warm brown crown, nape, and upperparts with black streaks on the lower back and rump. Their wings are warm brown with a rufescent cast. Their tail is dark gray with small white tips on the feathers. They have tawny rufous-brown lores and tawny-olive ear coverts. Their chin and upper throat are white and appear shaggy. Their lower throat and breast are creamy buff with some thin black streaks on the side. Their belly is white and their flanks white with blackish brown or dark gray streaks. Both sexes have a brown iris, a dusky maxilla, a pinkish gray mandible, and blue-gray legs and feet.

The elusive antpitta is a bird of the far western Amazon Basin. It is found in eastern Peru from eastern Loreto Department south to central Madre de Dios and in western Brazil's Amazonas and Acre states. It inhabits the floor of tall mature terra firme rainforest. It appears to favor areas of dense vegetation along streams. All of the few records are at elevations between 120 and 500 m (400 and 1,600 ft) above sea level.

The elusive antpitta's diet and foraging behavior are not known, though it almost certainly feeds mostly on invertebrates captured on or near the ground.