The Tsing-ling Pika lives in coniferous forests in China’s mountains. The adult male described by Thomas had a bluish-gray winter coat, white ear rims, and white upper surfaces of the hands and feet.
The adult male holotype, collected in January 1910, had long, soft winter fur that was bluish gray overall. Its back was darker gray tinged with brown and its underside was gray. The outer surfaces of the ears were blackish, with white rims and a cinnamon-colored tuft of long hairs at the inner base. The hands and feet were white above, while the thick fur on the palms and soles was smoke gray. This male measured 142 mm in head-and-body length.
It is associated with dark coniferous forests. In the Qinling and Dabashan mountains, its range overlaps with that of the closely related Ochotona sacraria.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.