Adult males show a red head and upper breast, green upperparts, and pale bars on the belly; females have a black crown. The species uses forest and bamboo-rich woodland and searches low branches or the ground for ants.
Adult males have a red head and upper breast, green upperparts, and pale bars across the belly. Females have a black crown.
It occurs alone, in pairs, or in small family groups in forest and bamboo-rich woodland. It is thought to feed mainly on ants, foraging low in trees and on the ground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.