The male is blue with a rose-pink belly, while the female is greyish brown. The species inhabits a restricted area of Mexico's southern Pacific slope.
The male is blue from head through breast, with a rose-pink belly and a broken white eye-ring. The female has greyish-brown upperparts and paler underparts with a variable pinkish tone; her broken pale eye-ring is visible.
It eats grass seeds, fruit from trees and bushes, and insects. It is seen alone or in pairs in low brush and is largely sedentary.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.