This bird is endemic to forest on Panay and Negros in the Philippines. It has a grey head and neck, a brown back, and dark tail and flight feathers, with a subtle facial mask and white streaks on the mantle. Field observations describe it high in the canopy or on exposed perches.
The head and nape are grey, the back brown, and the tail and primary flight feathers dark. The article describes a subtle facial mask and white streaks on the mantle.
In the reported encounters, birds were often high in the forest canopy, and some perched where branches left them exposed. The author's encounter count is not a population estimate.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.