A small tanager of humid tropical lowlands, it also uses evergreen-forest edges, plantations, and gardens.
The sexes look alike: black and blue plumage, a white belly, and a golden hood. Purple and turquoise sheen is visible in good light.
Pairs feed at different heights in fruiting trees and bushes; the species also joins mixed feeding flocks of honeycreepers and euphonias.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.