A bird of open woodland and shrubland in dry parts of Australia. Males are black and white, females are mainly brown, and it feeds on nectar and insects.
Males are black and white, with a long down-curved bill and a black chest band. Females are brown.
It occurs in dry open woodland and shrubland. It takes nectar and insects, including nectar from eucalypts, mistletoes and Eremophila.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.