This small waxbill lives around African forest and woodland edges. It has a gray body, red rump and black eye-line, and forages under cover for grass seeds and other foods.
It is a small gray waxbill with a red rump and upper tail-coverts, a black eye-line and a long tail.
It uses open woodland, forest edges and thickets, foraging under dense cover for grass seeds. Nectar and insects are also listed as foods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.