This thrush is endemic to the Comoro Islands. It uses evergreen forest and wooded edges, foraging low in vegetation and on the ground for mostly invertebrates, with some fruit and seeds.
The sexes look similar. Adults have olive-brown upperparts, a white throat with fine buff streaks, and a broad brown band across the breast.
It searches low branches and the ground. Its diet consists mainly of invertebrates, with some fruit and seeds.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.