A small bushshrike of eastern Africa, recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. It uses dry savanna and thicket.
The male has a black head, back, and tail, black, gray, and white wings, and whitish underparts. The female is gray with white-edged wing coverts.
It skulks low in dense vegetation and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.