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| rice-bird (a) | |
| fody | ~ the Madagascar cardinal-bird, a species of weaver-finch. Foudia madagascariensis. It is also called the rice-bird, from the destruction it sometimes causes to the rice crops. During the breeding season the male bird is, except the wings, of a brilliant scarlet colour ~ the rice-sparrow (the male is red in summer) |
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