The Black-goggled Tanager is distributed in southern Brazil and adjacent areas of Argentina and Paraguay with a disjunct population along the eastern slopes of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia. See the distribution map at xeno-canto.

The male, seen in photo 1, has black round the eyes and on the forehead forming the goggles and a yellow crest which is often hidden. It is grey-olive above but this bird looks much darker on the upperparts than the illustration in Ridgely & Tudor. The wings are black and I think that the white patches that can be seen on this bird are because it is moulting. It has a white band across the base of the primaries which is visible in flight but not normally on the closed wing. Below is buff.