This bird lives in south-central Tanzania's mountains. Its back is brown, with a pale line above the eye. It eats invertebrates in montane forest and thickets.
The back is brown, with a faint eyebrow-like line just above the eye. The breast and flanks are warm olive-brown.
Oiseaux.net's sourced account places it mainly in dry montane forest, with some records in wetter forest and thickets, and lists invertebrates as food.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.