This bird is restricted to western Panay Island. It has olive-green upperparts, a creamy face, and a yellowish underside with dark streaks; it forages for insects and seeds in montane evergreen and mossy forest.
The upperparts are olive green and the face creamy white. The underside is heavily streaked with black, with its base colour grading from whitish on the throat to buff-yellow on the lower belly.
It uses the middle and upper storeys of montane evergreen and mossy forest. It eats insects and also seeds, usually foraging alone or in pairs and sometimes in small groups.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.