The Spotted Elachura is a brown bird marked with white spots. It searches for insects near the ground in damp forest, from eastern Nepal and northeastern India to southern China.
Its brown body has fine white spots and a short tail. Adult sexes look alike, while juveniles are darker than adults.
It lives in the understory of damp forest, near dense thickets and rocks, and moves close to the ground while feeding on small invertebrates.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.