A small lorikeet of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville. It has a red body and yellow breast band and gathers in flowering trees to feed.
It has a red body, a broad yellow breast band, olive-green wings and rump, and a red tail tipped with yellow. Females have yellow patches on the sides of the rump.
On Kolombangara, groups of about 8–12 were often observed feeding in lowland to submontane forest. One group of more than 20 fed in a large flowering tree.
Near Mount Sasari on Santa Isabel, a nest found on 15 July 1992 occupied an irregular cavity about 20 m high in a large rotten, moss-covered tree at roughly 300 m elevation.
That nest held two noisy young, attended by two adults arriving almost together.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.