This small bird inhabits Australia's dry interior. Its brown back and white underparts are divided by a black breast band.
The upperparts are brown and the underparts are white, with a clear black band across the breast.
It inhabits semi-open dry country such as mulga woodland and scrub, sandhills, and stony desert. It is recorded as a ground-foraging invertebrate eater.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.