Rufous-faced Antbird

The rufous-faced antbird is 14 to 16 cm (5.5 to 6.3 in) long and weighs 21 to 26 g (0.74 to 0.92 oz). Males have medium gray upperparts with an olive-brown tinge. Their wings and tail are blackish gray with wide white tips on the wing coverts. Their throat and underparts are medium gray with an olive-brown tinge to their sides, flanks, and crissum. Females have a gray-brown crown and upperparts. Their wings and tail are blackish brown with pale cinnamon-rufous tips on the wing coverts. Their face is rufous. Their throat and belly are pale tawny that gently becomes olive-brown on their flanks and undertail coverts. Both sexes have pinkish legs and feet.

The rufous-faced antbird is found in the central Amazon Basin south of the Amazon between the Madeira and Tocantins rivers and south into northern Rondônia and far northern Mato Grosso states. It primarily inhabits the floor and understorey of terra firme evergreen forest. It occasionally also occurs in seasonally flooded forest. Within the forest it favors poorly drained areas and areas along small watercourses. In elevation it mostly occurs below 500 m (1,600 ft) though it is found locally up to about 800 m (2,600 ft).

The rufous-faced antbird feeds primarily on insects; its diet also includes arachnids. Its foraging behavior is not known but is assumed to be very similar or identical to those of its former "parent" the spot-winged antbird, which see here.