. How to sex cage birds (British and foreign) . l-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 generally largerthan the females. Rufous-Vented Glossy Starling (Spreo pulcfter) The female is noticeably smaller thanthe male. Long-tailed Gloss\ Starlin
. How to sex cage birds (British and foreign) . l-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 generally largerthan the females. Rufous-Vented Glossy Starling (Spreo pulcfter) The female is noticeably smaller thanthe male. Long-tailed Gloss\ Starling(Lamprotornis ccwdatus). Although no sexual difference hasKeen indicated, there can be little doubtthat the female is smaller than themale. In all the true Starlings, in additionto the differences above noted, the bills of the sexes should be compared : for,although the sexual characters are notso well defined in the bills of Stumidtt(Mainatus excepted) as in many otherfamilies, the longer and somewhat moreslender type of bill would always be. 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
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