Its back is cinnamon-rufous and its underside tawny brown. The 1917 original account described one adult male collected at Niangara in the Congo.
The upperparts are cinnamon-rufous and the underparts tawny brown, with a paler, yellower area on the chest. The ears and wing membranes are dark, and a broad, low tuft is described on the crown.
The original account lists one adult male collected at Niangara on 12 December 1910. It does not report observations of diet or activity time.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.