Adult males have dark crowns and upperparts, while females are cinnamon-colored with gray crowns. In southern Peru's inter-Andean valleys, the account describes subspecies audax as a rare resident.
Adult males have blackish crowns and upperparts. Females are cinnamon-colored with gray crowns; the gray does not extend onto the neck or upper back.
In montane and riparian forest, it forages in the canopy and below it; it also uses scrub in inter-Andean valleys. The southern Peru account describes subspecies audax as a rare resident.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.