A nondescript brown flycatcher with a rufous tail and rump. Note the hook-tipped bill, white throat, and pale gray unstreaked underparts. Juveniles paler above with buff fringes on some wing feathers. Occupies shady areas of the forest understory, including bamboo stands, in lowland areas. Restricted to the Sula Islands. Longer-billed and longer-tailed than female Snowy-browed Flycatcher, and further differs in absence of pale forehead and in having entirely gray underparts. Song is a quiet phrase of thin, high-pitched whistles, descending at the end, “tsee-tser-soo-loo-soo.”