The plumage and behaviour below come from a 1949 account of the Ruwenzori Mountains only. It describes birds above the bamboo zone, with dark brown upperparts, a faint wingbar and white outer tail feathers.
In the 1949 Ruwenzori account, local birds are dark brown above and pale brown below, with a faint pale wingbar and white outer tail feathers tipped dark.
The same account places birds above the Ruwenzori bamboo zone and describes them moving their wings and tail and perching on shrub tops. The author notes that the high-altitude descriptions were incomplete.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.