This small bird occurs in the highlands of Upolu and Savai'i in Samoa. The sexes are similar and it feeds on fruit and invertebrates. The Savai'i form, tenebrosa, is darker.
It has hair-brown plumage with darker feather shafts over much of the head and upperparts, a white eye, and a bright red-orange bill. Its underparts are buff-washed and irregularly barred dark brown. The sexes are similar; tenebrosa is darker.
It uses moist lowland forest and traditional plantations, sometimes pasture with undergrowth and trees. It feeds on fruit and invertebrates, gleaning from leaves of small trees and shrubs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.