Largely olive coloured above with whitish underparts, it has a pale supercilium and a yellow vent.

The throat is, however, largely whitish unlike in the similar looking and sounding yellow-throated bulbul, which is found in rockier habitats.

The northern boundary occurs across Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and western West Bengal (near Midnapur[8]).

It is found in dry open scrub country mainly on the plains and also occurs in gardens and woodlands with dense shrubbery.

They build a nest, a loose cup made of twigs, cobwebs and hair placed low in a thick bush and usually on the periphery.