A small bird recorded in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. Males and females have different patterns on the chest and wings.
Males have a black chest band, yellow-orange eyes, a white wing stripe, and a white throat. Females have orange eyes, a buff-and-white wing stripe, and a rufous chin patch.
It flits through the mid-canopy and understory of forests, forest edges, plantations, and gardens.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.