This ground thrush is marked by an orange head and breast, olive-brown upperparts, and a white eye-ring. It searches for fruit and small prey in the lower parts of mountain forest.
The sexes are described as alike, with an orange head and breast, olive-brown upperparts, a white eye-ring, and 2 white wing-bars.
It is shy and usually solitary, searching for invertebrates and fruit on the ground in mountain-forest undergrowth, often near streams.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.