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Indian silverbill
Indian silverbill (Lonchura malabarica).
Silverbill
bird
Also known as: white-throated munia
Silverbill, any of several birds named for bill colour. Some finches of the genus Lonchura (see munia) are called silverbill.
Lichenops (Hymenops) perspicillata, the spectacled tyrant, or silverbill, of central South America, is a tyrant flycatcher.
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