This blue-gray jay has a black face, a narrow lavender eyebrow, and a lavender throat. It searches for arthropods in humid mountain forest in eastern Mexico.
It has a slate-blue body, black mask, narrow lavender supercilium, and lavender throat. Females and juveniles are duller than adult males.
It lives in humid pine-oak-fir forest and feeds on arthropods. It is usually seen in pairs, sometimes in small flocks with other birds.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.