A montane babbler of western Cameroon and eastern Nigeria. BirdLife's 2017 account uses Kupeornis gilberti and describes adults as chestnut brown with a white face and breast and greyish-olive wings and tail.
Adults have a chestnut-brown body, white face and breast, and greyish-olive wings and tail.
It travels in flocks through the canopy and may join mixed-species flocks; it also uses the middle and lower forest layers.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.