A small bird with a slate-grey back, rufous-buff throat and a narrow breast band. It lives in central African montane forest, where pairs duet.
The upperparts are dark slate grey. The throat and breast are rufous-buff with a narrow dark grey band; the rest of the underparts are white. The outer tail feathers are white and the eye is red.
Above 1,000 m, it uses forest from the canopy to the middle storey. Pairs duet with calls rendered as “zee zee zee” or “trrrt trrrt.”
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.