This slim laughingthrush occurs in northeastern India and adjacent western Myanmar. It also uses scrub and grass patches near broadleaf forest.
About 23 cm long, it has brown plumage with fine whitish streaks, a prominent pale eyebrow and moustachial mark, maroon-brown foreparts with a short scraggly crest, and buffy breast and belly.
It feeds mainly on insects. A skulking bird, it is usually seen singly or in pairs and only rarely in groups.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.