A small finch with a gray head and yellow-green cheeks, rump, and underparts. It feeds on plant seeds in open mountain woods and meadows.
Adults have a gray head and yellow-green cheeks, rump, and underparts. Males have a gray-green back; females have a gray-brown, streaked back.
It eats seeds and leaves, with the plants used varying by season and region. In autumn, family groups can join into flocks of more than 200 birds.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.