Wax-eye

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  1. 1
    A bird of the genus Zosterops; a silvereye. Australia, New-Zealand

    "[T]he world being My Place by the fallen birch log, with the grass, the insects in the grass, the sky, the sheep and cows and rabbits, the wax-eyes and the hawks – everything Outside."

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silvereye

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"[T]he world being My Place by the fallen birch log, with the grass, the insects in the grass, the sky, the sheep and cows and rabbits, the wax-eyes and the hawks – everything Outside."

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