This whistler relative inhabits mid-mountain forest on mainland New Guinea. Males are black, females olive-brown to rufous, and the birds forage for arthropods.
Adult males are black; females are olive-brown to rufous.
It is reported singly or in pairs and forages for arthropods in the middle and upper forest storeys. In one nest observation on the Huon Peninsula, a female incubated, but the paper says the small number of observations cannot show that only females incubate.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.