The species account describes olive-yellow upperparts and tail, a grey head and throat, and a yellow breast band. It notes that a white supercilium occurs only in subspecies signatus.
The account describes olive-yellow upperparts and tail, a grey head and throat, and a broad yellow breast band. It says the white supercilium occurs only in subspecies signatus.
It forages with mixed-species flocks in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest on the eastern Andes. Western-slope records are described as local.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.