This monarch is restricted to Vanikoro and Buma islands in the eastern Solomon Islands. It uses moist lowland and secondary forest and searches for insects in the canopy and subcanopy.
Its plumage is mainly dull slate-grey, with a broad, pale but indistinct eye-ring and lores. The underparts are slightly paler and the undertail-coverts whitish.
It uses moist lowland forest and secondary growth, feeding on insects mainly in the canopy and subcanopy. It often forages in mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.