This chat-tyrant lives in open woodland and scrub in the high Andes. It perches upright and makes short flights to catch arthropods.
The account describes a mostly gray bird with a conspicuous white eyebrow and narrow rufous wing-bars. Its length is about 12.5–13 cm.
Reported habitats include dry to semi-humid Polylepis and similar open woodland, scrub, and shrubby puna grassland. It is seen alone or in pairs and sallies from a perch for arthropods; seasonal elevation movements are also reported.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.