This shama has a warm brown body and rufous tail. It skulks alone in lowland forest understorey and searches near the ground for insects.
It has warm brown body plumage and a rufous tail, with a less vivid pattern than the related White-rumped Shama.
It lives in dense lowland forest understorey and searches for insects on or near the ground. It is usually solitary and skulking.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.