Dull brown babbler with yellowish-tinged underparts, a faintly gray face, and a warmer orange-brown crown. Throat and chest are faintly streaked, but not as evident as that of the very similar Pin-striped Tit-Babbler, from which Gray-faced can also be distinguished by its grayer face and less contrast between the more warmly-colored crown and duller upperparts. Forages in noisy flocks in the middle and lower levels of the forest. Ranges from lowlands up into the foothills. Mellow-sounding song contrasts with rather nasal, chattering calls.