Nest
Shallow, cup-shaped, composed of bark and grasses, usually in a bush or small tree, sometimes with a meter of two of the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
2; smooth, matt, white to pink thickly blotched with chestnut, red and purple-grey, forming a zone, particularly at the larger end; oval; about 22 x 16 mm. Incubation: about 15 - 17 days; by female only.
Young
Fledge in about 12 - 14 days. Fed by both parents.
Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
flava (Gould, 1843) - Cape York Peninsula and coastal and subcoastal far north-eastern Queensland south to about Burketown (south-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria) in western and to Burdekin-Lynd Divide in east.
addenda (Mathews, 1912) - Coastal and subcoastal Ceastern Queensland, from high country of Burdekin-Lynd Divide south to Broad Sound.
Similar Species
Varied Honeyeater (Gavicalis versicolor) which also has a bright yellow underbody but has upperparts that are more olive-green and mottled darker in an adult and light brown in juveniles.
References
See References.
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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