Both sexes have a plum-colored head spot, while only the male has a dark chin spot. The JCU page documents a local occurrence in Townsville.
It has a brown head and back, white throat and underparts barred brown, and black tail. Both sexes have a plum-colored spot above the eye; only the male has a dark chin spot.
It is gregarious and sometimes uses open woodland, where it feeds on grass seeds.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.