A small bird of the Tumbesian region of Ecuador and Peru. Males have black around the eye; females show a yellow brow and eyering. It occurs in low thickets and open-woodland edges.
About 13–14 cm long. Males have black around the eye, a gray crown, olive upperparts and yellow underparts. Females have a yellow brow and narrow eyering.
It is diurnal and often seen in pairs. The catalogue reports rainy-season observations; breeding males sing from exposed perches.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.