. How to sex cage birds (British and foreign) . LONG-TAILED GLOSSYSTARLING. {Photograph by Hiss Alder son.) likely to indicate a cock bird. Bower-Birds (PtUonorhynchidm).Satin Bower-Bird (Ptilonorhynchua molaceus). The female is smaller than the male, has a shorter wing ; herprevalent colour is greyish-green, instead of black shut with Prussian-blue, with cinnamon on the outer part of the wing, golden brownishtail-feathers, somewhat ashy ear-coverts, slightly brownish throat, and the rest of the under parts somewhat yellowish, all the feathersbeing crossed by blackish bars, some of them with a
. How to sex cage birds (British and foreign) . LONG-TAILED GLOSSYSTARLING. {Photograph by Hiss Alder son.) likely to indicate a cock bird. Bower-Birds (PtUonorhynchidm).Satin Bower-Bird (Ptilonorhynchua molaceus). The female is smaller than the male, has a shorter wing ; herprevalent colour is greyish-green, instead of black shut with Prussian-blue, with cinnamon on the outer part of the wing, golden brownishtail-feathers, somewhat ashy ear-coverts, slightly brownish throat, and the rest of the under parts somewhat yellowish, all the feathersbeing crossed by blackish bars, some of them with a looped inner. THE BOWER-BIRD. 82 How to Sex Cage Birds. stripe bounding the shaft for sonic distance and then uniting acrossit. I have not noticed this chararter in young birds, which also ;ireless sharply barred, and show indications of pale spots inside theouter bar of the feathers; they are not blotched with black, evenin male birds, until the change to adult plumage has commenced. Australian Cat-Bird (Mhvrcedua viridis). The sexes of what the Zoological Society calls the Green Bower-Birds have not been differentiated in the Museum Catalogue, butI should expect to find a shorter wing in the female than inthe male. Spotted Bowkr-Bikd (Chlamydodera maculata). The female is smaller than the male, has ao lilac baud on thenape, and has faint dusky bars on the under parts. Regent-Bird (Sericulus melinus). Dr Sharpe thus describes the female: Different from the male. General colour above brown, mottled with white centres to thefeathers, edged with black ; scapulars like the back : wing-covertsand quill
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