Dark green upperparts, wings and tail. yellow underparts and a yellow stripe over the eye. Juvenile plumage duller.
Thought to have similar habits to Oxylabes cinereiceps, ie. to live in ground cover of dense forest and to feed on insects. (UICN 1990)
IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre, viewed in July 2000, "Threatened Animals of the World", IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
Langrand, Olivier; 1990: Guide to the Birds of Madagascar, Yale University Press
Sinclair, I & Langrand, O.; 1998: Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands, Struik
UICN le Centre mondial de surveillance continue de la conservation de la nature, 1990, Madagascar, Profil de l'énvironnement, Cambridge, U.K., App. 3