This species lives at low levels in the thickest parts of forests, often near streams or damp areas or in wooded swamps, from sea level to 1500 meters (about 5,000 ft), in the southern parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria.

Adults are brown above and orangish below, more gray or olive on the nape and breast and more rufous at the rear of the body.

[3] One call is four rapidly repeated notes, "tswe-tswe-tswe-tswe" with the variant "tsw-tsee… tsweeeee"; another is "a long, plaintive whistle wee… weeeee-eee."

During the breeding season it is highly territorial, but at other times it may join mixed-species flocks at ant swarms.

Favored insects include termites, grasshoppers, ants, beetles, flies, and various small species.

In Liberia, birds have been observed in breeding condition from June to December and independent young in September.