The Sooty-capped bush tanager (Chlorospingus pileatus) has a blackish head with a white supercilium and a grey throat. It has olive upperparts and yellow underparts. It is an endemic resident breeder in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama, and is mostly found in mossy, moist and wet mountain rainforests, and elfin forests, also using tall second growths and high-altitude scrublands.