A forest bulbul with a grey head and belly contrasting with its yellowish-brown back. It feeds mainly on fruit.
It has a grey head and underparts, yellowish-brown back and undertail, blackish lores, and a pale grey line above the eye.
It is active by day and feeds mainly on fruit. It uses lowland evergreen broadleaf forest and also occurs in hill forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.