It has a bluish-gray head and back with a broad rufous band along the flanks. It lives along high-elevation forest edges in southeastern Brazil.
The head and back are slate gray, the throat and underparts are white, and a broad rufous band runs along the flanks. It has a long tail and buff undertail.
It uses high-elevation scrub and Atlantic Forest edges, gleaning small invertebrates from leaves and also eating fruit.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.