This small bird occurs in forests of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. It has a gray head and throat with a white eyebrow and searches low vegetation for insects.
It is about 13 cm long, with a gray head and neck and a white line above the eye.
It uses the undergrowth of tropical dry forest and woodland edges and eats mostly insects.
In June 1999 at Nuevo Becal, Mexico, a cup nest was built in the fork of a dead shrub 70 cm above ground. It used palm fibres, rootlets and fine fibres from epiphytes, held together with spider silk.
One nest at Nuevo Becal in June 1999 contained two white eggs with a faint pinkish wash. The female built the nest and incubated, while the male sang nearby and patrolled around the nest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.