This cuckooshrike lives on Indonesia's Sula Islands. A 1991 survey and island records describe it in secondary and logged forest and at forest-farm edges, using the middle and upper canopy.
John Gould's historical plate depicts a dark slate-gray body with a darker head, wings, and tail.
In the Sula Islands survey, birds were recorded in secondary and logged forest and along forest-agriculture edges, usually singly or in groups of up to three in the middle and upper canopy.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.