Males have orange heads and blue backs. In Sumatra's mountain forests, the bird searches near the forest floor for large cockroaches and snails.
Adult males have an orange head and vivid blue upperparts. Females are browner above, with a blue rump and tail.
It lives in dense undergrowth in montane forest and searches near the forest floor for large cockroaches and snails.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.