This bird lives in mountain forest in Costa Rica and Panama. Its dark head and white eyebrow stand out as it moves in small groups through the understorey.
It is stocky, with dull olive upperparts, a blackish crown and cheeks, a white eyebrow, a pale throat, and a thick bill.
It inhabits humid mossy mountain forest, forest edges, and thickets, moving in noisy small groups through the understorey and sometimes joining mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.