Adults are dark olive overall, with paler throat and ear-coverts and darker lores and wings. The species occurs in the Andes of southeastern Peru and northwestern Bolivia, using both dry and wet mountain forest as well as canyons.
Adults are dark olive overall, with a paler throat and ear-coverts and darker lores and wings. Peru Aves also describes a pale bill and a yellow tail with dark central and outer feathers.
It occurs in dry and wet Andean forest, canyons, settlements and fruit orchards.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.