grassfinch

/ ˈɡrɑːsˌfɪntʃ /

noun

any Australian weaverbird of the genus Poephila and related genera, many of which are brightly coloured and kept as cagebirds

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Even the trills of the grassfinch and the song-sparrow have points of similarity; does that prove that they borrow from each other, or that espousals sometimes occur between the two species?