A forest-dwelling finch of Africa. Males have a red back, green throat, and grey-green body.
Males have red on the back, rump, wing coverts, flanks, lores, and around the eyes, with a green throat and grey-green body.
It eats seeds and insects and builds a nest of grass, moss, and fibres in a low dense bush. Both parents incubate the eggs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.