This bulbul is recorded only on the Palawan and Calamian islands of the Philippines. It uses forests and forest edges and feeds on insects and fruit.
It has a brown crest and hindcrown, grey cheeks, a white throat, an olive-green back, chestnut-brown wings and tail, yellow underparts, and a grey bill. The guide notes browner cheeks and redder-tinged wings in juveniles.
It occurs in forests and along forest edges, is active by day, and feeds mainly on insects and fruit.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.