This tanager lives in forests of northern Amazonia. The male is black with a fulvous crest, while the female has an olive back and gray head.
The male has a black body, fulvous crest, tawny rump, and reddish flanks. The female has an olive back, gray head, and yellow-brown underside.
It occurs in the middle layers of mature forest, alone as a pair or in mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.