This seed-eating finch lives in the Andes of Chile and Argentina. Adult males are yellow, while females are gray-brown.
Adult males are mainly yellow, with gray and greenish tones on the back and shoulders and dark wings and tail. Adult females are gray-brown, with yellow limited to the throat, center of the belly, and undertail.
It uses Andean grassland, dry rocky ground, and shrubland and feeds on seeds.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.