This brown-toned dove has white tips on its tail. It uses humid forest and older secondary growth, walking on the ground to feed on plant seeds and other material.
The back is plain brown, with grey-brown neck and underparts. The tail has white tips; the iris is pale, the skin around the eye is red, and the bill is black.
It is diurnal and feeds on plant seeds and other material on the ground in humid forest and older second growth.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.