A rather large, secretive, variable ground-thrush with mostly orange-rufous underparts and olive-brown upperparts, double white wingbars, and a distinctive smudged blackish mask spreading from the base of the bill to the ears, broken by a partial white eye-ring behind the eye. Rare, found in pairs in montane forest between 800 and 2300 meters of elevation in two discrete populations in the Cameroon Mountains and the Itombwe Highlands. Prefers wetter forest, including gullies and ravines where it forages on the ground, but sings from the forest canopy. Song is a rich mellow series of whistles, “chroo-woo-doo-too-loo-do-chu”; alarm call is a typical high-pitched thrush “ssreee.” No other ground-thrushes have a black face mask.