This laughingthrush ranges through South and Southeast Asia. It is diurnal and gregarious, and the described subspecies has a dark breast necklace and a white eyebrow.
The nominate subspecies has an olive-brown back, a reddish-brown nape band, a white eyebrow, a black eye-stripe and a black breast necklace. The sexes are similar.
It lives in moist deciduous and broad-leaved evergreen forests and bamboo thickets. It is active by day in groups and feeds on insects, snails, small lizards, berries, seeds and other plant matter.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.