This prinia occurs on the Indian Peninsula and often uses dry scrub and grassy hills.
Breeding birds described from Maharashtra have a grayish face, a stout black bill, and white outer tail feathers.
At Sagareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra, the study found it commonly in arid scrub, fallow land with bushes, and bushy hills. Nests were placed in thorny bushes or Agave.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.