This robin occurs in Himalayan forest. Males have blue upperparts and orange underparts; females are brown above with paler underparts.
The male has blue upperparts, orange underparts, a long white supercilium and black eye-mask; the lower belly and undertail are white. The female is brown above, buff below, with a white throat and belly.
It uses dense forest understory and thickets and feeds on invertebrates; accounts describe movement to lower elevations in winter.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.