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DzscriPrion. 
Pace. 
GioR) OFS 1B Ee. AC RK. 
Loxia aftrild, Lin. Sy/. i. p. 303. N° 21. 
Le Senegali rayé, Bri/. orn. iii. p. 210. N° 64. pl. 10. f. 5—Buf. oif. iv. 
p- 101. pl. 2. f. 2——Pl. enl. 157+ Ff. 2 
Waxbill, Edw. pl. 179+ 354+ 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
HIS is fearce bigger than a Wren: length. four inches and 
athird. The bill is fomewhat gibbous at the bafe, and of a 
deep red colour: a ftreak of red paffes through the eye; and the 
middle of the breaft and belly of the fame colour: the upper 
parts of the body are brown, the under reddifh grey, croffed 
every where with tranfverfe blackifh lines: the quills and tail 
brown: the laft cuneiform, brown, croffed with lines of darker 
brown: legs brown. 
In fome birds the tail is plain brown, and the vent and under 
tail coverts black *, which is the cafe in a fpecimen in my 
pofleffion. I have alfo feen others, which varied much from 
either, efpecially in regard to the having more or lefs:of the black 
lines. ‘ 
Thefe inhabit the Canary Dflands, Madeira +, Senegal, Angola, 
the Cape of Good Hope, and India }. 
* This puts me in mind of the Bearded Titmoufe; the male of which has a 
black vent, the female not. May not this mark diftinguih the fexes? 
+ Forft. Voy. p. 26. 
} Towhich Linzeus.adds America, Suriname. 
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