Horsfield's Babbler is a brown babbler that lives low in evergreen forests of Southeast Asia.
The crown is dark brown and the back olive-brown. The lores and eyebrow are pale grey, and the greyish-buff breast becomes whitish toward the belly.
It searches for insects on the forest floor and in low vegetation, usually alone, in pairs, or in small groups. It uses moist evergreen forest, often near water.
It builds a broad, untidy cup of dead leaves in a sapling up to about 1 m above the ground and lays two eggs.
The breeding season is February–September and November in Borneo, April–May on the Malay Peninsula, and February–May in Java.
The tail is short, the chin and throat whitish, and the lower throat and upper breast have greyish-buff streaks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.