This small tanager inhabits high elevations in Peru's eastern Andes. Its broad rufous eyebrow contrasts with the gray plumage, and it occurs in humid montane forest and scrub.
About 16 cm long. The head, back, and sides are slate gray, with a broad rufous eyebrow, throat, breast, and central belly.
It feeds among dense foliage in humid montane and elfin forest or scrub, often in family groups or mixed flocks and sometimes in bamboo.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.