This small bird lives on Java. The male has chestnut on the forehead and throat, yellow-green upperparts and bold black-and-white wing bars; the female is more rufous and has paler wing bars.
The male has a dark chestnut forehead and throat, a narrow yellow band above the forehead, yellow-green upperparts and bold white-and-black wing bars. The female has rufous suffusion above, less prominent rufous-and-dark bars, whitish underparts and a yellowish belly and vent.
It uses lowland and moist montane forest, feeds on insects and fruit, and is usually seen alone or in pairs; small groups and mixed flocks occur outside the breeding season.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.