WAX-EILL. 
" This beautiful little bird has the middle 
feathers of the tail lono er than those of the 
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sides ; which particularity is not, I believe, to 
be found among small birds that eat seeds, in 
this part of the world, though it be common 
to Butcher-Birds. The bill is of a moderate 
bigness, for a hard-billed bird; and of a fine 
red colour, like sealing-wax: which, I sup- 
pose, gave the bird it's name. From the angle 
of the mouth, there passes a long red spot; 
broad in the middle, and ending in a point 
about the place of the ear : in the middle of 
this spot, is placed the eye; which is black. 
The top of the head, under side of the neck, 
the back, and upper side of the wings and tail, 
are of a dark dusky brovvn colour. The sideS 
of the head, beneath the red -marks, are whit- 
ish ;. and the breast becomes, gradually, of a 
light ash-colour. The sides of the belly ; the 
thiffhs: and the coverts of the tail, both above if 
and beneath; are, also, of a light-brownish 
ash-colcur. The lower part of the breast, an 
middle of the belly, is finely stained with 
largish red spot ; which gradually loses itsel 
in the brownish ash-colour that borders it all 
round* All the brown feathers in this bird, o 
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