This small bird lives in grassland and cultivated areas in Papua New Guinea. Males have a gray head and throat, dark brown back, and orange rump.
In males, the head, nape, and throat are gray; the mantle, back, and upperwing are dark brown; and the rump is orange.
It occurs in moist savanna, grassland, rice fields, roadsides, and lawns, sometimes near settlements. It gathers seeds from the ground and from grass stems.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.