This greenbul occurs from western Africa into parts of eastern Africa. It has an olive-gray head and neck, uses several kinds of woodland, and eats fruit and insects as well as seeds.
It is about 16 cm long. The head and neck are olive-gray, and the tail is relatively short.
Records include primary and secondary forest, deciduous and evergreen woodland, swamp forest and gallery forest. Its diet includes insects, seeds and fruit.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.