Males have a pink throat and black underparts dotted with white. The birds search for grass seeds on the ground and live in thickets and at forest edges.
Males have brown upperparts, a pink rump and upper-tail coverts, and a blue-gray bill. Females have a gray face, throat, and breast; both sexes have black sides to the underparts with white spots.
It feeds mainly on grass seeds on the ground. The reference lists it as terrestrial and granivorous, with plant seeds in its diet.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.