The Golden-breasted Fulvetta is patchily distributed in mountain forests from the Himalaya into mainland Southeast Asia. It has a black head with silvery ear-coverts and orange-yellow underparts.
The head is black with silvery ear-coverts; the back is grey, the wings have yellow to orange-yellow marks, and the underparts are orange yellow.
It uses dense undergrowth and low thickets in mountain temperate forest, feeding on insects, small berries, and seeds.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.