This small warbler has chestnut upperparts, gray underparts, and a pale rufous head. It lives in forest undergrowth in the Solomon Islands.
The head is pale rufous, with a darker line behind the eye; the upperparts are chestnut and the underparts gray.
It uses dense undergrowth and tangles in forest and at forest edges. The account places it usually above 600 m, locally at lower elevations.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.