A tanager of humid lowland forests in northern Amazonia. It acts as a sentinel near the center of mixed-species flocks and catches insects flushed by other birds.
It is 15–17 cm long. The male has a black hood, tail, and upperwing, with apricot-yellow upperparts brightest on the nape, a large tawny-rufous breast patch, and ochre underparts that turn cinnamon below the tail. The female has a greyish-brown crown, warm-brown upperparts, a dull reddish-brown face, and ochre-olive to orangish-buff underparts.
In mixed-species flocks it acts as a sentinel near the center. Alone, it may perch upright at mid-level or in the subcanopy, then sally rapidly after insects flushed by other birds. It eats insects and seeds and is described as resident.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.