This tanager-family bird occurs in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Males are strikingly patterned in black, blue, and gold.
The male has black upperparts, a gold band on the hindneck, and blue on the underparts and wings. Females are plainer.
It forages in the middle and upper forest levels and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.