180 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA: 



The eggs of the Yellow-tail are mostly pure white, 

 but occasionally have a few light-reddish spots, in some 

 instances almost forming a zone not unlike the eggs of 

 the Blue Wren or Superb Warbler. Eggs, usually 

 three or four for a sitting. 



Gould, in his work on the ^ Birds of Australia" 

 says u that the sexes are alike in plumage, and may be 

 thus described : Forehead, black, with a spot of white 

 at the tip of each feather; cheek, throat, and a line 

 from the nostrils over each eye, greyish- white ; chest 

 and under surface yellowish- white, passing into light 

 olive-brown on the flanks ; upper surface and wings, 

 olive brown ; rump and upper tail coverts, light citron- 

 yellow; base of the tail feather, white, tinged with 

 yellow ; the external margin of the outer feathers and 

 the tips of all, brownish-grey; the central portion, 

 blackish-brown; bill and feet, blackish-brown; irides, 

 very light grey." 



Found also in Queensland, New South Wales, Sotith 

 and Western Australia, and in Tasmania. 



