Males have black heads and breasts with white underparts; females have gray heads and rufous throats and underparts. On Makira Island they quietly search for arthropods in the forest canopy.
Males have black heads, breasts, and upperparts with a greenish-blue gloss, and white underparts. Females have gray heads and hindnecks, brownish backs, wings, and tails, and rufous throats and underparts.
It feeds on arthropods and forages quietly in the forest canopy.
The male has dark grey legs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.