This roughly 20 cm bird lives in humid Andean montane forest. Yellow-olive upperparts, a striped gray-and-black head, and a white throat are distinctive.
It is about 20 cm long, with yellow-olive upperparts and gray and black head stripes. The throat and center of the underparts are white. A black breast band is present in some regional populations but absent in others.
It inhabits humid montane forest. In Peru it is recorded at 1,200–3,200 m in the Andes, and at lower elevations in humid forest in Tumbes.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.