A finch of northwestern Peru's tropical savanna. It has gray-brown upperparts, light-brown underparts, and a yellow face and throat.
It has grayish-brown upperparts and plain light-brown underparts, with a yellow face and throat. The sexes are similar; juveniles lack the yellow face and throat.
It moves in large flocks across open savanna in northwestern Peru. The account describes it as restricted to flat tropical savanna and also present in Ecuador.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.