The lore, the auriculars and the malar region, the nape, mantle and side are bright red to deep scarlet.

[4][5] Mrs. Gould's sunbird is widely distributed in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, India, Vietnam and Southern China.

The elongated and tubular tongue is modified for sucking the nectar from tube-shape flowers.

Diet in Sichuan and Yunnan was found to include spiders, small beetles and hemipteran nymphs.

[5] Mrs. Gould's sunbird is generally resident but may undertake small-scale seasonal migrations.

In the breeding season, the males court the females with a mating call "zhai-zhai-zhai".

The adults feed nectar to the young chicks by regurgitation at the beginning; later on invertebrates are increasingly provided.

[1] Mrs. Gould's sunbird is not on the list of endangered and protected species of China.

However, it is on the List of Wild Animals Protected by the PRC that Are Beneficial or of High Value to Economy and Science.