The bird is slender, with a green back, pale grey crown and ear coverts, a white throat, yellow underparts, and grey legs.

The slim bill is pale pink with a darker culmen.

[1] Its natural habitat is primary humid montane forests along the length of eastern Madagascar.

[1] It feeds on small insects on mossy tree trunks and sometimes on understory shrubs, but is seldom observed on the ground.

Nests are bowl-shaped and made of moss lined with dry grass and palm fibers, built in horizontal branch forks one to two meters above the ground.