This laughingthrush is restricted to a small area of southern Vietnam. It has a dark throat and an orange breast marked with dark spots, and forages near the ground.
About 24–26 cm long. Dark brown overall, with dark spots on the blackish throat and orange breast and a narrow white stripe behind the eye. Juveniles are paler and less strongly spotted.
It forages on the ground alone, in pairs, or in small groups in evergreen-forest understory, bamboo, and dense scrub. The profile reports no diet information.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.