The male is a full-bodied red and orange bird with white plumage with black spots and its pink legs. It has a bare blue facial skin, a retractable leather below the blue face and horns. The female is a brown bird with white spots. Its appearance resembles the tragopan satyr, but unlike the last species has an orange collar around the neck. The diet consists mainly of fruits, grass and plants.

Found in the forests of northern South Asia, northeast India, northwestern Vietnam, Tibet and northern provinces of China.