This bulbul lives in forests in India and Sri Lanka. It has a yellow eyebrow, face, and throat, with olive upperparts.
The brow, orbital area, face, and throat are yellow; the upperparts are olive. It has a slightly decurved bill and large dark eyes.
It uses evergreen jungle, wet forest, shola, coffee shade-trees, and forest edges. Its diet consists mostly of fruit and seeds, with insects including spiders; it sometimes eats flowers.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.