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waxbill

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wax·bill  (wksbl)
n.
Any of various tropical Old World birds of the genus Estrilda and related genera, having a short, often brightly colored waxy beak.
waxbill [ˈwæksˌbɪl]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various chiefly African finchlike weaverbirds of the genus Estrilda and related genera, having a brightly coloured bill and plumage
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Not only do their eggs resemble those of the waxbill, their young have the same markings in their mouths as young waxbills as it is by these markings that the parent birds identify where to put the food and without them the nestling whydahs might starve.
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Sushkin (1927) concluded that the waxbills were most closely related to the whydahs (Vidua), but belonged as a subfamily in the Ploceidae.
Skeletal characters and the systematics of Estrildid finches (Aves: ... by Webster, J. Dan / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
 
 
 
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