A mountain redstart recorded from northern China to northeastern Tibet. Males combine bluish-gray and reddish plumage, and the species uses rocky scrub-covered slopes and bushy river margins.
The male has a bluish-gray head and upper mantle, a reddish lower mantle through the rump, and blackish wings.
It is classified as migratory. Autumn berries are recorded, but little else is known about its diet in the cited account.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.