This bird lives in humid forests from Central America into northern South America. It has a green back, white eyebrow, and pale throat edged in black, and feeds on fruit and insects in the lower vegetation.
The upperparts are olive green and the underside grey, with a buff lower belly. The pale throat has a black edge, and a white line runs above the eye.
It forages in low and middle vegetation, sometimes with mixed-species flocks. Its diet includes fruit, berries, nectar, buds, and insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.