This blue-violet jay is marked by a silvery throat and upper breast and a white band on the forehead. It lives in humid mountain forest from Costa Rica to western Panama and eats fruit and small animals.
The throat and upper breast are silvery white, and a white forehead band continues as a narrow eyebrow. Most of the plumage is blue-violet, with brighter blue wings and tail.
It inhabits humid evergreen montane forest and takes a varied diet that includes fruit and insects. The account describes it as sedentary.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.