It forages in the mid-story of humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slopes and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks. It has olive upperparts, a tawny breast and a broad, flat bill.
The upperparts are olive green. The wing coverts and flight feathers have rufous edges but no true wing-bars. The throat and breast are fulvous, grading to olive and yellow below. It has a pale eye-ring and a broad, flat, bicoloured bill.
It forages in the mid-story of humid montane forest, often with mixed-species flocks. In Peru it occurs on the eastern Andean slope at 1,000–2,000 m; the Peru Aves account describes it as uncommon to rare there.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.