This bulbul occurs in the Cameroonian highlands and on Bioko. Records include montane forest, secondary and gallery forest, clearings, and bamboo.
It is about 18 cm long. The adult type specimen was described with a slate-grey head, sides of the face, throat and fore-neck, the throat slightly paler. Adults measured on Mount Cameroon averaged 7.8 cm in tail length for males and 7.6 cm for females.
It is diurnal and is recorded in forest and forest edge from about 1,000 to 2,850 m. Compiled ecological data list fruit and nectar in its diet.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.