This small bird inhabits the undergrowth of humid forest. A study reports different crown gloss in the nominate population from northeastern India and Myanmar and the subspecies from northern Thailand and Vietnam.
Adults of the nominate form studied in northeastern India and northeastern Myanmar have a glossy crown. The studied subspecies from northern Thailand and Vietnam lacks this gloss.
The paper describes the species as living in dense, humid forest undergrowth. Songs of the northern Thailand population and nominate form were compared and found broadly similar, with only minor differences.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.