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1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 307 Othersome againe are yellow onely about the tayle: whereuppon they haue purchased the name of Yellow-tayles.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 210/2 The Ascarides, or lesser Earth-worm,..Some are yellow, called Yellow-Tails, or Golden Tails.

1869 Student & Intellect. Observer 3 438 Lumbricus fœtidus... The posterior portion or tail is slightly tapered..and the yellow bands are most conspicuous on this part of the body. Hence a common name in some parts of the country, ‘the yellow tail’.

1911 Gardeners' Chron. 26 Aug. 152/3 The yellow tail (A[llolobophora] studiosa, Rosa).

1977 Field & Stream Jan. 126/1 (advt.) Crossbreeding Red Wiggler, Yellow Tails and Tiger worms has produced an amazingly active and tough worm for fishing, gardening and business.

2011 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Aug. 29 Red worms are common at the surface under dung pads, rosy-tip worms can be found to 10cm depth, grey and purple worms to 20cm depth and the yellow-tail to 40cm.

a1622 R. Norwood Descr. Sommer Ilands in V. A. Ives Rich Papers: Lett. Bermuda (1984) 378 There is great store and variety of Fish, and so good as these parts of the World affords not the like; which being for the most part vnknowne to vs, each man gaue them names as they best liked: As one kinde they called Rock-fish, another..Yellow-tayles.

1709 W. Dampier Contin. Voy. New-Holland iv. 143 The Sea and Rivers [of New Guinea] have plenty of Fish;..we catch'd but few, and these were Cavallies, Yellow-tails and Whip-rays.

1769 ‘Endeavour’ Log 12 Nov. in R. McNab Hist. Rec. N.Z. (1914) II. 147 The Indians brought us some large fish, call'd Yellow Tails.

1796 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. V. 944/2 Yellow tail, (a) Perca punctata. (b) Scomber.

1847 J. C. Ross Voy. Antarctic Reg. II. 117 A kind of mackarel, called yellow tail, and sometimes cavallo.

1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 131 The Yellow Tail, Bairdiella chrysura, known as ‘Silver Perch’ on the coast of New Jersey.

1897 B. Harraden in Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 179 The yellow-tail is rather like a solid beefsteak of coarse fibre.

1917 Brit. Sea Anglers' Soc. Q. 10 98 The glittering form of the yellow-tail a fathom or two down in the blue sea is beautiful to behold.

1951 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Mar. 12/1 He took small yellowtail and ‘old wives’ off the hook and flung them contemptuously into his sugarbag.

1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways ix. iii. 349 Flounders (yellowtails or lemon sole, blackbacks, dabs or plaice, gray sole or witch flounder) are selling at thirty-five cents a pound on the New Bedford market.

1992 Jrnl. Calif. & Great Basin Anthropol. 14 72/1 Minor environmental fluctuations have been used to explain the presence of normally warm-water marine yellowtail (Seriola lalandi)..as far north as Monterey Bay.

2010 Independent 4 Aug. 43/2 The best fish they have [in South Africa] is King Clip and yellowtail.

1748 London Evening-Post 1–4 Oct. The English moths and butterflies delineated, and painted in their proper Colours; with their Caterpillars, Food, and Crysalis... 4. The Yellow Tail Moth.

?1749 B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies 28 The Yellow-tail Moth..may be found sticking against the Barks of the Trees in Parks.

1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 2) I. ii. 30 Some larvæ..feed on a variety of plants; amongst others that of the yellow-tail moth (Bombyx chrysorhœa, F.).

1873 J. E. Taylor Half Hours in Green Lanes v. 173 The Yellow-tail moth (Liparis auriflua) is also a common insect, whose white wings and yellow tuft spread out like a fan, lead to its ready identification.

1912 Manch. Guardian 10 July 16/5 Considering that the moth flew from a thorn, and from its size and appearance, I think that it was the common gold-tail or yellow-tail.

1972 C. C. Harris Beginner's Guide Rose Growing xii. 132 Leaf-skeletonising The larvae of Yellow-Tail (Euproctis chrysorrhoea L.), and Buff Tip Moths.

2008 V. Albouy & J. Chevallier Nature by Night 131/2 Adult Yellow-tails can sometimes be seen during the day, especially egg-laying females.

1775 A. Dalrymple in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) (1779) 68 410 Many yellow tails; two black birds at a distance like land birds.

1855 E. G. Squier Notes Central Amer. xi. 195 The Yellow-tail (Cassicus Montezuma) soon becomes familiar to all voyagers on the rivers of Honduras.

1862 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 32 245 The beautiful silver-barked mountain-guava rears its lofty head, often festooned round with the pendant nests of the yellow-tail.

1933 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1932 84 247 The Montezuma and Wagler's oropendolas were called ‘yellow tails’, and were hunted for food. Having a very strong odor much like our crow,..I did not try eating them.

1996 A. F. Skutch Orioles, Blackbirds, & their Kin 244 Continually chased by first one and then another of the larger yellow-tails.