The male is notable for its white eyebrow and ochre belly. The bird stays close to the ground in shrubby mountain forest.
The adult male has slate-blue gray upperparts, dusky ochre underparts, and a thin bright white eyebrow. The female is browner overall, with a less distinct eyebrow.
This ground-dwelling bird uses montane forest with dense shrubs during breeding and moves to thickets at lower foothills in winter.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.