Eye-catching, vocally accomplished, but furtive passerines of dense undergrowth in forest, thicket and suburbia with an orange and black tail. They are typically seen diving into thick cover. They are acomplished singers.
They primarily feed on the ground, shuffling and hopping (usually while whistling) through leaf litter in search of invertebrate prey.
Monogamous pairs mate for life. The female bluids the nest, an open cup of rootlets, dead leaves, leaf midribs etc. placed in a rat-hole, tree stump, shrub or recess on a bank. They have a clutch of 2 - 3 whitish eggs with pink, rufous or brown splotches or all-olive to chocolate. Incubation is done by the female alone, but care of young is shared between male and female.
They are commonly parasitised by red-chested cuckoos.

Cossypha = a singing bird

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