This small tanager occurs around the Andes. It has plain gray-brown plumage and a dark bill with a yellow-orange lower mandible.
It is plain grayish-brown without obvious markings. The bill is dark, with a yellow-to-orange lower mandible.
It forages in low scrub, thickets at forest edges, and on the ground, alone or with other seedeaters.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.