This resident vireo occurs only on Cozumel Island, Mexico. It has chestnut-toned head and back, a white eye-ring, and two pale wing-bars, and forages in low to middle vegetation.
It has a dark chestnut crown, broad off-white markings around the eye and above the lores, light chestnut upperparts, and two yellowish-white wing-bars. The sexes are similar; juveniles are paler than adults.
It forages in low and middle vegetation in scrubby woodland, second growth, old farmland with bushes, and thickets in deciduous woodland. The source gives no diet details.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.