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  1. Small African seed-eating bird, genus
  2. Estrilda. Waxbills grow to 15 cm/6 in long,
  3. are brown and grey with yellow, red or brown
  4. markings, and have waxy-looking red or pink
  5. beaks. They sometimes raise the young of
  6. whydahs, who lay their eggs in the waxbill's
  7. nest.
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