The South African race has large black spots across its white underside and searches among forest leaf litter for food.
The South African nominate race G. g. guttata has olive-brown upperparts and a white underside marked with large black teardrop spots. Its wings have white bars.
In South African forests it searches among leaf litter for worms and snails. Some birds move to coastal forest in the non-breeding period.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.