It inhabits dry scrub in central and southern Myanmar, feeding in small groups mainly on the ground.
It has a white throat and breast, dark streaks above, a buff-rufous belly and a very long tail.
It uses dry scrub, bushes in semi-desert, thorn hedges, thickets and cultivation edges, feeding on insects and foraging mainly on the ground in small groups, sometimes near habitation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.