This account refers to Pericrocotus erythropygius and excludes the separately treated Jerdon's Minivet. Males show black, white, and orange, while females are mainly grey-brown and white.
Males have glossy blue-black heads, backs, and uppertail coverts, white underparts, and an orange patch below the lower throat. Females have grey-brown upperparts and white eyebrows, throats, sides of the head, and underparts.
In dry open grassland and scrub, it mainly eats insects such as grasshoppers and spiders. The pair shares construction of a small grass cup nest lined with flowering grass.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.