A whistler of New Guinea's mountains, occurring in forest and high-elevation shrubland.
It has a dark grey crown and brown ear coverts. The back and wings are sooty brown to olive, while the throat and underparts are white with grey on the breast and flanks.
It occurs in humid montane forest and in shrubs within alpine grassland. It eats mainly insects, sometimes fruit, and forages from mid-levels to the canopy in forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.