This brushfinch lives in wet tepui forest in the Guiana Highlands; the male has a cinnamon-rufous nape and yellow underparts and forages near the ground.
The male has a cinnamon-rufous nape, olive upperparts, and yellow underparts.
It uses the understorey of wet tepui forest and shrubby borders or clearings. It forages close to the ground; the page reports arthropods and berries but notes little published diet information.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.