This small bird lives in dry woodland and scrub in southwestern Madagascar. It searches among foliage and leaf litter for insects and spiders.
The upperparts are pale olive-brown, with a whitish eyebrow and a dark line through the eye. The breast is gray-brown, and the long graduated tail has pale tips.
It searches low shrubs and leaf litter in dry, thorny scrub for insects and spiders. It may also join mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.