This long-tailed prinia lives in scrub on hills and mountains. Breeding adults show a gray head, white moustachial stripe, and black throat and chest.
The upperparts are brown, the wings slightly rustier, and the belly paler. In breeding adults, the head is gray, with a white moustachial stripe and black throat and chest.
It uses scrub, clearings, and forest and field edges, and descends to the foothills in winter. Its song is a repetitive series of short “plik” notes.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.