Adults have dark olive-brown upperparts, a short gray supercilium, a pale throat, and grayish breast and flanks. It stays low in dense bamboo or grass.
Adults have dark olive-brown upperparts, a short gray supercilium, whitish throat, and gray chest and flanks.
It uses bamboo, tall grass, and dense cover along forest edges, foraging for insects below about 1.5 m. BirdLife assesses it as non-migratory.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.