This white-eye lives on Grand Comoro in the Comoros. Shelley's 1900 description gives adults an olive-yellow back, a white eye-ring, and a yellow throat and breast.
Shelley's 1900 adult description gives deep olive-yellow upperparts, a white eye-ring, a yellow throat and breast, and black lores.
The species account summarizes forest and semi-open habitats and classifies the bird as diurnal.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.