This warbler lives in mountain forests on the eastern Andean slope. Its yellow-olive body and black-and-white head stripes are distinctive. The Peru account notes duller birds in Puno than farther north.
It is yellow-olive overall, with white and black stripes on the head. PeruAves distinguishes the duller birds in Puno from those farther north in Peru.
In Peru, it is common in the middle and lower layers of mountain forest on the eastern Andean slope, at about 1,050–2,200 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.