This small finch uses western Andean foothills and farmland in Peru. Males are gray and females brown; both sexes have two white wing bars and feed in shrubs at forest edges and fallow fields.
Aves de Perú’s account describes adult males as gray above and pale gray below with a brown bill. Females are brown above and pale brown below with a dark bill. Both sexes have two white wing bars.
The Peruvian species account says it feeds in shrubs at forest edges and in fallow agricultural fields.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.