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16. 
BLACK-LINED 
GR. 
DESCRIPTION. 
DirscriprTion. 
13. 
WAX-BILL 
GROSBEAK. 
GAO! (SB VAGIK: 
IZE of a fmall Linnet: general colour grey, paler beneath, croffed 
every where with numerous flender lines of black; between the 
bill and eye black, furrounding the eye, and ending in a point juft 
behind it: the bill is ftout, and of a fine crimfon colour: the lower 
part of the back and rump are alfo fine crimfon: legs pale brown. 
inhabits New South Wales, where a fingle fpecimen was met with 
in May; called Weebong. 
IZE of the laft, but ftouter in the body: the general colour of 
the plumage pale olive brown above, and dufky white beneath, 
croffed every where with fhort abrupt curved lines of black: quills 
and tail brown, marked with feveral bands of a darker colour: the 
bill, irides, lower part of the back and rump are crimfon: legs yel- 
lowith. 
Found in the fame place and at the fame time as the laft. 
Loxia aftrild, zd. Orn. 1. p. 376. 75.. 
Waxbill Grofbeak, Gen. Syn. ili: p. 152. 71. 
HE amazing flocks of this fpecies may in fome degree be con- 
ceived, from the circumftance of fixty-three having been fhot at 
one difcharge of a fmall fowling-piece *. 
* Barrow’s Trav. Pp. 373° 
