A shrike-vireo of forests and scrub in Mexico and Guatemala. Males and females differ in the chestnut markings on the head and breast.
Males have a bluish-grey crown, nape, and upper mantle. Females are paler, with a narrower chestnut breast bar and smaller chestnut areas on the flanks and breast sides.
It uses pine-oak woods, open scrub, and tall, humid forest including cloud forest. Its diet includes arthropods such as caterpillars, wasps, grasshoppers, and beetles, plus some seeds.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.