This tanager is marked by an orange-yellow crown and a black facial pattern. In humid forests on the eastern Andes, it searches moss and the undersides of small branches for arthropods.
It has an orange crown, a black mask and chin, and yellow feathers around the ears.
It uses humid primary forest and mature secondary forest on the eastern Andes. In the canopy and below it, the bird probes moss and checks the undersides of small branches for arthropods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.