The male has a purple forecrown and iridescent green head and upperparts. It eats nectar, fruit, insects, and spiders.
The adult male has a purple forecrown; the rest of the head and upperparts are iridescent green.
It eats nectar, fruit, insects, and spiders. It feeds in gardens and cultivated areas, on rocky hillsides, and in dry river beds with flowering plants.
It also eats the fruit of Salvadora persica, the toothbrush tree.
In northern Somaliland, a nest suspended from a branch tip was made of spiderweb and decorated with small cocoons, with a little hood projecting above the entrance.
The female has ashy-brown upperparts and whitish underparts.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.