It lives in montane forest on New Guinea, and the sexes look very different. The male has a black body with metallic green-blue ornaments; the female is brown and patterned.
The male has a black head and throat with metallic green-blue crown and breast ornaments. The female has brown and rufous upperparts and narrow dark bars below; juveniles resemble females.
It feeds mostly on fruit and arthropods, usually foraging alone at different forest levels. During courtship the male displays from a high perch and raises his ornaments; the female builds and tends the nest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.