This yellowthroat is recorded in Mexico, where it uses brush on rather dry slopes and open pine or pine-oak woods.
Males have a dark face mask with a dark gray border. Both sexes are darker and greener above, yellow below, with a darker wash on the sides and flanks.
The species account places it on weedy, brushy, rather dry slopes and in brushy undergrowth in open pine or pine-oak woods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.