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- noun Any of various small
passerine birds of thegenus Foudia in theweaver familyPloceidae .
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Examples
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Of the 16 endemic birds found on these islands, seven are confined to Mauritius, four to Réunion, and two, the Rodgrigues warbler (Acrocephalus rodericanus, EN) and the Rodrigues fody (Foudia flavicans VU), to Rodrigues Island.
Mascarene forests 2008
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Other endemics are the Seychelles kestrel (Falco araea VU), Seychelles blue-pigeon (Alectroenas pulcherrima), Seychelles swiftlet (Collocalia elaphra VU), Seychelles bulbul (Hypsipetes crassirostris), Seychelles magpie-robin (Copsychus sechellarum CR), Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis VU), chestnut-sided white-eye (Zosterops mayottensis), Seychelles white-eye (Zosterops modestus CR), and Seychelles fody (Foudia sechellarum VU).
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But leaving him to the full enjoyment of his fantafies, which are too abfurd, impotent, and unfubllantial, to fhake either our reafon, or the rights to fhew the extent of mechanical powers, this rhetorical figure is admiflible; but, to found philofcphy, it is a nonfenfical rhap - fody.
Constitutional letters in answer to Mr. Paine's Rights of man 1792
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