In nominate-race specimens, the upperparts are yellowish green, the breast and flanks pale gray, and the throat and undertail yellow. The species is recorded from lowland second growth and farmland to mountain forest on New Guinea.
Nominate-race specimens have a comparatively narrow eye-ring, yellowish-green upperparts, pale gray breast and flanks, and a yellow throat and undertail.
It is diurnal and is recorded in lowland second growth and farmland as well as mountain forest at 750–2,600 m. Its diet is classified as omnivorous.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.