. How to sex cage birds (British and foreign) . hat the wings of the female are shorter than thoseof the male. As I have pointed out elsewhere, the cut illustratingthe head of this species (on p. 93 of the Catalogue) is entirelyincorrect in drawing, the crest of A. cristateUus being confined tothe bill and forehead, over which it curls backwards. A. yingini-anus seems to be rarely imported. True Mynahs or Grackles (Mainatus, etc.).* Black necked Mynah (Graculipica nigricollis). The female is a good deal smaller than the male, but no differenceof plumage has been noted. * In these birds the bil
. How to sex cage birds (British and foreign) . hat the wings of the female are shorter than thoseof the male. As I have pointed out elsewhere, the cut illustratingthe head of this species (on p. 93 of the Catalogue) is entirelyincorrect in drawing, the crest of A. cristateUus being confined tothe bill and forehead, over which it curls backwards. A. yingini-anus seems to be rarely imported. True Mynahs or Grackles (Mainatus, etc.).* Black necked Mynah (Graculipica nigricollis). The female is a good deal smaller than the male, but no differenceof plumage has been noted. * In these birds the bills of the males are stronger than those of the females. Old World Starlings. Wattled Mynah (Dilophas carunculatus). 79 In the female the wings are shorter than in the male : she is alsobrowner, making the white rump more conspicuous ; the upper tail-coverts brown; the wings are browner, the primary- coverts black;the head is feathered, not bare on the crown; the only bare partsare round the eyes, a yellow patch behind the latter, and the sides. MALE AND FEMALE OF THE GREATER HILL-MYNAH. of the throat; the lores are dusky ; sides of face and under partshuffish, whiter on the centre of abdomen. The male has two erectwattles on the centre of. the crown and a pendant wattle in thecentre of the face. I have never seen the Javan Mynah in themarket or at shows, but it has been represented at our ZoologicalGardens. Greater Hill-Mynah (Mainatus intermedins). The female is smaller than the male, but similar in colouring ; herbill is considerably weaker. 80 How to Sex Cage Birds. Lesser Hill-Mynah (Mainatus religiosus). As with the preceding, the difference, apart from form of bill,seems to consist chiefly in the inferior size of the female and hershorter wing. Glossy Starlings (Lamprocolius, etc.). Green Glossy Starling (Lamprocolius chalybeus). Purple-hkaded Glossy Starling (Lamprocolims purpureus). The only sexual difference indicated for these two species isthat the males are generall
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