A ground-foraging bird restricted to some mountains of Mozambique and Tanzania. It searches leaf litter for invertebrates in wet evergreen forest near streams.
Adults are about 17–19 cm long, with an olive head and upperparts, rufous upperwings and a chestnut tail. The pale yellow throat is mottled grayish olive; pale underparts have dark spots and streaks. The sexes are similar.
It lives in wet montane evergreen forest at 900–1,800 m, especially dense ground growth near streams. It searches leaf litter for invertebrates and is resident.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.