This small bird lives in the damp fynbos of South Africa's Cape mountains. The sexes look much alike, with a gray face, pale yellow eye, and cinnamon-buff underparts.
The sexes are very similar. The face is gray, the eye pale yellow, and the underparts cinnamon-buff.
It uses seeps, drainage-line vegetation, and mature fynbos, and feeds on insects. It skulks within the vegetation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.