This babbler occurs around desert basins in western China. Compared with the Beijing Babbler, it is much paler and more uniform in plumage.
It is much paler and more uniform than the Beijing Babbler, with an off-white to buff supercilium and a dark-brown iris.
Species accounts describe it in shrubland and semi-open habitat; it forages on the ground and is mainly an invertebrate eater.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.