This whistler lives in Australian mallee shrubland. The New South Wales factsheet describes known populations around Round Hill and Nombinnie in central New South Wales.
The male is brownish grey, with rusty orange on the face and throat, a grey breast, and buff-orange underparts. The female is paler. Immatures have a rufous eyebrow, pale throat, and brown eye.
It searches the ground for invertebrates and also eats berries and seeds, according to the factsheet. Its habitat is mallee shrubland.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.