About 17 cm long, both sexes are brownish birds. It occurs in lower layers of humid forest and in shaded secondary growth.
It is about 17 cm long. The sexes are alike, with brown to olive-brown plumage and a large-eyed appearance.
It uses lower growth in humid forest and shaded secondary forest, and may perch upright on low stems. It is reported to join mixed-species flocks infrequently.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.