This brush finch occurs in the Paria and Turimiquire mountains of northeastern Venezuela. Its species account describes humid mountain forest and feeding in tangled cover close to the forest floor.
It has a black crown and face with a short white eyebrow, olive upperparts, a black breast band, and a white belly.
Pairs or small groups search tangled understory and leaf litter very low in the forest for food.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.