WAX-BILL. 
it's upper side, on the siaes of the belly, &:c. 
are transveFselv marked with nve lines of a 
darker colour. It's tees stand, tliree forwards, 
and three backwards, as in iiiost other small 
birds, and are all of a dusky colour.^^ 
He adds, that he made his drawing from the 
living bird, which was the property of George 
Shelvocke, Esq. to whom it was sent, with 
many others, from Lisbon ; that it was brought 
to Lisbon, from the East Indies ; and that, he 
believes, it was never, till then, either figured 
or described. 
Bu-ffon says — I have been assured, that 
the Female is exactly like the Male. Bot,'^ 
he adds, " the diiTerence which I have myself 
observed, in many individuals, and those which 
have been noticed by others, create some doubts 
of the perfect similarity of the sexes. I have 
seen several, which came from the Cape: ill 
some of which, the .upper part of the body 
was more or less of a deep brown, and the un- 
i der more or less reddish ; in others, the upper 
part of the head had no rays. In that last fi- 
gured by Edwards, the rays consisted of two 
browDSj 
