A babbler of West African scrub and woodland edges, forming small groups and searching leaf litter near the ground.
It has a blackish cap, grey-brown upperparts, white throat and spotted breast, white eye-ring, and buff flanks.
It uses gallery forest, scrub, bamboo, and streamside thickets, flipping leaf litter for insects and fruit; groups of six to ten are recorded.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.