It breeds in forests of central and southwestern China, then winters from southern Yunnan through India and Southeast Asia. It searches for small insects at different forest levels.
The upperparts are olive green. A pale yellowish-white eyebrow runs above the eye, with a dark eye-stripe and two pale wing-bars; the underparts are whitish with a pale yellow vent.
It forages from the canopy to lower forest levels, often hanging beneath leaves or creeping along trunks while taking small insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.