Heavily patterned terrestrial bird of Nullarbor Plain. Both sexes have pale eyebrow, brown back, and black-and-white markings on wing. Female has buff chin and moustache, white belly, and pale gray chest, male a white moustache, black throat patch that connects to thick black breast band (forming an upside-down "T"), and brown sides. Note that male Copperback Quail-thrush has black chest. Usually seen walking around in very open low shrubland. Calls include a long, high-pitched whistled "seeeep."