Males have a chestnut head and a white plume behind the eye; females also have a white postocular plume, with chestnut on the forehead and throat. It forages near the ground in humid montane forest.
Males have dark brown upperparts, gray underparts, a chestnut forehead and crown, and a long white plume behind the eye. Females have brown upperparts and a grayish belly, with chestnut on the forehead, throat, and upper breast and a broad white postocular plume.
It forages on or near the ground in humid montane forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.