The Pictorella Munia lives in grasslands and scrub across northern Australia. Adult males have a black face, while females are brown-faced, and the birds feed for seeds on the ground.
Adult males have a black facial mask and clear white spots on the breast. Females have a brown mask; their breast spots are less distinct and appear as blackish barring.
It feeds on seeds on the ground by day. It uses open grassland with sparse trees and shrubs and is described as nomadic.
In captivity, it holds mealworms with a foot and nibbles them in pieces.
In captivity at Featherdale, a male was seen courting a female by bobbing around her on the ground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.