This small finch has strongly different male and female plumage. Males are conspicuously yellow, while females are mainly green. It lives in the mountains of Hispaniola.
The male is mostly yellow with a greenish back and a black hood reaching the throat. The female is mostly green, with grey-green streaks below and pale wing bars edged in yellow.
It mainly uses montane pine forest and also enters broadleaf forest seasonally. It eats seeds and fruit and usually nests in pine forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.