Nest
Cup-shaped, composed of bark and grasses interwoven with cobweb, lined with small dry leaves, often neatly decorated on the outside with strips of bark, usually placed in the upright or horizontal fork, sometimes on a horizontal branch of a low tree, from 1 - 6 meters above the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
2; apple-green to pale yellow-green, marked with browns, especially at the larger end; oval; about 20 x 15 mm. Incubation: about 15 - 16 days; by female.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fed by both parents.
Subspecies
Closely related to, and sometimes treated as conspecific with, Eastern Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria australis).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
griseogularis Gould, 1838 - Coastal south-western WA, north to about Lancelin, inland east to Northam and south-east to King George Sound.
rosinae (Mathews, 1912) - Inland south-western WA, through Wheatbelt north-west to the western coast between Jurien Bay and Tamala, inland east to Goldfields, and south-east round southern coast to head of Great Australian Bight and central and northern Eyre Peninsula, SA.
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Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
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What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
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