Its tail is blackish brown, edged with ashy brown. The plumage is ashy grey above; whitish below, cross-barred with brown. Three eggs are laid, ashy grey with green and grey blotches. The iris is dark brown (not crimson as in the similar ashy drongo). The fragrant, ashy green leaves are obovate and rugose, growing less than long. The back and wings are ashy gray. Eruptions from volcanic mountain ranges to the west buried vast regions beneath ashy debris. Silverleaf hydrangea produces more showy flowers than smooth hydrangea or ashy hydrangea. The flanks and shoulders were spotted, some of them tended to an ashy colour. In India, they have been found to be fed by black drongos and ashy drongo. The species is known generally as the "ashy gray lady beetle". In this way, ashy muds, sands, or even in some cases ashy limestones are formed. Marwan Nahle, Habib Sleilati, Mario Ashy, Kabalan Samaha, Nabil Heshy, George Hayek and Alain McDessi. Like most warblers, the ashy prinia is insectivorous. However, they have been found to consume prey as large as the ashy storm petrel.