Orange-yellow skin around the eyes and on the ear-wattle contrasts with the smoky brown back. In New Guinea's highlands, it feeds on small fruits and insects in the canopy and middle storey.
The facial skin and ear-wattle are orange-yellow. The upperparts are blackish brown; the underparts are dark grey-brown, paler on the throat and abdomen, and the bill is blackish.
It feeds mostly on small fruits in the canopy and middle storey, and also takes small insects by gleaning from foliage or sallying for them.
It makes a loose cup nest of leaves and moss, bound together with black fungal fibres.
Fruit is brought to the young as food.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.