This small vireo is endemic to Mexico. Adults are mainly olive and yellow, with a yellow line above the eye.
Adults have an olive head and upperparts, a yellow stripe from the bill over the eye to the ear-coverts, and yellow throat and underparts.
It inhabits pine forest and plantations; nests are reported in lower or higher parts of trees.
It feeds mainly on insects and their larvae.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.