grassfinch

/ ˈɡrɑːsˌfɪntʃ /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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?

From Project Gutenberg

A western grassfinch flew over to some bushes with a morsel in its bill, but I could not discover its nest or young, search as I would.

From Project Gutenberg