This monarch flycatcher occurs in the Philippines. A study on Luzon found a nest in secondary forest.
The 1971 book describes the nominate male with a short blue crest, black forehead, lores and chin, blue head and breast, and a white belly. The female lacks black around the bill and has grayer underparts.
At Baler on Luzon, a nest was found in a broken tree-fern trunk in secondary forest, about 70 cm above ground; it held two eggs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.