Its thick, silky fur is golden brown above with gray-black roots and golden tips, and paler below with dark roots and off-white tips. It is recorded around farms and small villages near forested mountain slopes in China, India, and Nepal.
Its fur is thick and very silky. The dorsal fur is golden brown, with grayish-black bases and golden tips; the underside is paler, with grayish-black bases and off-white tips.
It is reported around agricultural areas and small villages surrounded by steep mountain slopes with pine, oak, maple, walnut, and bamboo forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.