It occurs in montane forest on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, at 1,700–2,700 m.
About 13.5 cm long. It has an olive mantle, gray crown, broken brown wing-bars, a brown chest fading to yellow below, a black bill, and a brownish tail.
It forages in the middle and lower canopy of humid montane forest and often joins mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.