Definition of "browntail" []

• A local name for the Tasmanian tit, Acanthiza diemenensis. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "New England, soil of, 51-53; gypsy and browntail moths in, 152; beaver in, 179."
• "Some years ago the gypsy moth and the browntail moth were introduced by accident into the New England states."
• "Others on the move include bats, which have taken to using canals as a seasonal corridor in the warmth, according to a report from British Waterways, and thousands of browntail moth caterpillars, which have spun sticky canopies of cocoons on Canvey island, in Essex, to pupate earlier than usual."