The Ashy Flycatcher is grey to blue-grey, with a pale brow line that joins a narrow white eye-ring. It uses edges and clearings in dry and moist forest as well as moist savanna, catching mainly insects. The source uses Fraseria caerulescens and notes its former placement in Muscicapa.
It is pale grey or blue-grey, with a dark loral line, a white supraloral streak joining a narrow white eye-ring, and a whitish throat.
It favours forest edges and clearings in dry or moist forest and also occurs in moist savanna. It takes mainly insects in the air or on the ground; small fruit and geckos are also reported.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.