Scallop-breasted Antpitta

"Grallaricula are very small Andean antpittas, found mostly in low dense vegetation (such as treefall gaps, stream edges, and bamboo thickets)." The scallop-breasted antpitta is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a buff loral patch, a chestnut rufous supercilium, a buff yellow eyering, and a fuscous "moustache". Their crown and nape are chestnut rufous with sparse black streaks. Their upperparts and tail are olivaceous brown. Their flight feathers are fuscous to bronzy and their wing coverts rufous to bronzy. Their chin and throat are buff-yellow. Their breast is maize yellow that becomes creamy white on their belly. The breast feathers have a strong scallop pattern formed by olive bases and black edges at the tips. They have a brown iris, a black maxilla, a yellowish mandible with a black tip, and pinkish gray legs and feet.

The scallop-breasted antpitta is found only in northern Venezuela. A large part of its range is in the Venezuelan Coastal Range from Carabobo state east into the Capital District. A smaller range is further west in the Sierra de Aroa in Yaracuy state. It primarily inhabits the understory of humid montane cloudforest and less frequently is found in nearby secondary forest. In elevation it ranges between 1,440 and 2,100 m (4,700 and 6,900 ft) though there are unconfirmed records as low as 1,200 m (3,900 ft).

The scallop-breasted antpitta's diet is not known in detail but includes insects and other arthropods. It apparently forages singly or in pairs in low vegetation but rarely on the ground.