This bulbul occurs in Southeast Asian mountain forests. It eats fruit, seeds, and insects; the Bornean subspecies is described with a yellow undertail.
The upperparts are grayish brown, and the short gray-mottled crest is followed by a white throat and pale underside. The Bornean subspecies connectens has a yellow undertail.
The account places it most often in montane evergreen forest, including primary and second-growth forest, and lists fruits, berries, seeds, and insects as food.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.