This bird is known only from the Natewa Peninsula on Vanua Levu, Fiji. It searches for small invertebrates on the forest floor and in low vegetation.
It is deep black with metallic blue-green tips on feathers around the head, upper breast, and wings. Silky white feathers cover the rump and base of the tail.
It is associated with humid mature forest. BirdLife's species account describes it searching for small arthropods and worms in leaf litter and insects in the lower canopy.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.