This medium-sized tanager-family bird ranges from Central America into South America. It is greyish and has been recorded in plantation weeds, secondary forest, and scrub.
It is about 19–24 cm long, with grey-brown upperparts, a pale throat, and darker markings from face toward breast.
The account records it among weeds in plantations, in secondary forest, and in scrub. These records do not compare habitat-use frequency across the range.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.