It is found from the coast inland to Toowoomba and Inverell in the north, and the Grampians and Mount Lofty Ranges in the south.
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The redeye and related black prince are favoured food items of the Noisy Friarbird, which swallows them head-first and whole.
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Walter Wilson Froggatt reported that the common name was used by Sydney children in his 1907 work Australian Insects, referring to the colour of the ocelli.