Male has greyish-blue head, throat, nape, mantle, wings and upper breast, rufous belly, rump and tail. Female brown upperparts, light brown with brown spots below, white throat patch.
Was: Pseudocossyphus sharpei.
Langrand, Olivier; 1990: Guide to the Birds of Madagascar, Yale University Press
Sinclair, I & Langrand, O.; 1998: Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands, Struik