A small scrubbird from Tasmania and King Island. It is secretive but searches bark, litter, and foliage for small invertebrates near the forest floor.
It has a pale cream throat, breast, and belly, with a brown head. The Tasmanian government account notes these colors help distinguish it from similar scrubbirds.
It lives in rainforest and wet eucalypt forest and searches bark, litter, and foliage for insects and other invertebrates. In Tasmania, its breeding season is recorded as September to December, with a domed woven nest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.