The male has a black head and breast band, a rufous nape and white underparts. The female is grey-brown, with dark streaks below. The species occurs along northern Australia's coast and feeds in mangroves and nearby rainforest.
The male has a black head, rufous nape, black breast band, grey upperparts and white underparts. The female is grey-brown above and buff below, with dark streaks on the throat and breast.
It uses mangroves and adjacent rainforest along northern Australia and eats insects, crustaceans and small molluscs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.