This white-eye occurs on Sumbawa and Flores. It has a gray-and-white head, dark olive upperparts, and a white belly.
Its head has a white and gray pattern, contrasting with dark olive upperparts and bright white underparts. A dark spot marks the crown, and the eye is pale.
It has been recorded in semi-evergreen rainforest and moist deciduous monsoon forest. It was most frequent in mature forest, but also used degraded forest edges and dry forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.