This small pika is recorded in the mountains of Sikkim. Its winter coat is brown, with mixed brown and grey underneath. Surveys in 2010–2014 sampled it in subalpine Rhododendron forest and farmland.
Sikkim animals have a fairly uniform brown winter coat, with mixed brown and grey fur underneath. The outer ear and the outer part of its inner surface are black, while the inner part and rim are whitish. The hands and feet are brownish, with blackish-brown tufts on the soles. One adult male collected at Lachen on 31 December 1914 measured 165 mm in head-and-body length, 28 mm in hind foot, and 19 mm in ear length.
Field surveys in Sikkim during 2010–2014 found it in subalpine rhododendron forest at Kyongnosla in the east, and in farmland and rhododendron forest at Lachung in the north. At Maenam in the south and Kanchenjunga in the west, it was recorded in subalpine forest dominated by Rhododendron and Gaultheria shrubs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.