Adults have a black throat, white cheeks, a gray head, and a yellow bill. They search for seeds on the ground in northeastern Australian grasslands and open woodland.
Adults have a black throat, white cheeks, a gray head, and a yellow bill; the rump is white and the tail black.
It feeds on grass seeds on the ground and often forms flocks. It uses dry grassland and open eucalypt or acacia woodland.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.