White throat and undertail with a black breastband, wings black with a white wingbar, head black.
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