Apurímac Brushfinch

The Apurimac brushfinch is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs about 40 to 43 g (1.4 to 1.5 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly rufous head and nape with a black forehead, lores, and area around the eye. They have a white patch above the lores and a white lower cheek with a thin black line below it. Their upperparts are gray; their wings and tail are slightly more blackish with white showing on the bend of the folded wing. Their throat is white and their underparts mostly gray with a whitish center to the belly. They have a brown iris, a long blackish bill, and dark grayish legs and feet. Juveniles have a mostly brownish face and upperparts, a whitish throat, and a mottled brown breast and flanks.

The Apurimac brushfinch is found in south-central Peru from far east-central Ayacucho Department east through much of Apurimac Department slightly into west-central Cuzco Department. It inhabits montane scrublands and Polylepis woodlands in the intermontane valleys. One source states it ranges in elevation between 2,700 and 4,100 m (8,900 and 13,500 ft) and another says between 2,700 and 4,600 m (8,900 and 15,100 ft).

The Apurimac brushfinch's diet has not been studied. It forages on the ground or slightly above it in vegetation.