The male has a glossy blue-green throat and forehead with a vivid orange breast and belly. The species lives alone or in pairs in open woodland and scrub of lowlands and low hills.
The male has a glossy blue-green throat and forehead, an orange breast and belly; the female is dull olive with pale yellow underparts.
It occurs singly or in pairs in sparse woods, scrub, and plantations in lowlands and low hills.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.