This small babbler lives in broadleaf evergreen forest and some secondary forest in Vietnam, Laos, and eastern Cambodia. The account records it up to 1,165 m.
It is about 14 cm long. The upperparts are rufous-brown, the underparts pale yellow with faint brown streaks on the chest, and the area above the eye and sides of the head are gray.
It occurs in broadleaf evergreen forest and some secondary forest, with records up to 1,165 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.