A flycatcher recorded in northwestern Peru and the Marañón basin. PeruAves also lists Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Bolivia.
About 18 cm long, it has a gray crown with a bushy crest and a gray back. The wing coverts have brown edges, while the wings and tail lack rufous. The throat and breast are gray, becoming yellow toward the belly.
It forages in semideciduous forest and scrub. The account gives a Peruvian range in the northwest and part of the Marañón basin, reaching 600 m along Andean foothills.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.