Chestnut Antpitta

The chestnut antpitta is about 14.5 to 15 cm (5.7 to 5.9 in) long; six individuals weighed between 37 and 47 g (1.3 and 1.7 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have rufous brown upperparts. Their lores and most of their face are rufous. Their throat and breast are pale rufous, their belly whitish buff with obscure dusky barring, their flanks brown or olive brown, and their vent and undertail coverts tawny brown. They have a brown iris, a black bill, and slate, blue-gray, or silvery gray legs and feet.

The chestnut antpitta is found intermittently on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes from the Cordillera de Colán in Amazonas Department south for an unknown distance but short of northern Huánuco Department. It inhabits humid montane forest and secondary forest where it favors stands of bamboo and other dense undergrowth.

The chestnut antpitta's diet and foraging behavior have not been detailed; it is assumed to eat arthropods and perhaps small vertebrates as do other members of genus Grallaria . It is known to forage on or very near the ground.