Its yellow-green upperparts and bright yellow throat and belly stand out, and it has no white eye-ring. This white-eye is found only on Kai Kecil Island, Indonesia.
The upperparts are bright yellow-green, with a dark cap and dark lores. The throat and underparts are bright yellow. Some skin around the eye is bare, so there is no white eye-ring. The sexes are similar.
It uses forest and cleared land with scattered trees. It forages in the canopy, usually in pairs or small groups, and is sedentary.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.