This forest bird has a grey and green back with vivid orange on the throat and breast.
The typical morph has a steel-grey head and back, olive-green rump, wings, and tail, an orange throat and central breast, and yellow flanks and belly. The rare yellow morph lacks orange below.
It uses forest, forest edge, and secondary growth. Its voice is a bell-like whistle, given singly or in a faster series.
The eyes are white, and the bill and legs are blackish grey.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.