. How to sex cage birds (British and foreign) . e male has the ear-coverts, cheeks, and throatblackish, but the female pale brownish Lavender Finch {Lagonosticta ccvrulescens). The same initial remarks apply to this as to the precedingspecies; but in the female the hinder portion of the abdomen fromthe thighs backwards is sooty rather than black. Weaver-Birds and Whydahs. 55 Crimson-winged Waxbill or Aurora Finch(Pytelia phoenicoptera). The female is much duller than the male, with the crimsoncolouring less prominent, especially on the margins of the mantleand flights, where it is buffish in t
. How to sex cage birds (British and foreign) . e male has the ear-coverts, cheeks, and throatblackish, but the female pale brownish Lavender Finch {Lagonosticta ccvrulescens). The same initial remarks apply to this as to the precedingspecies; but in the female the hinder portion of the abdomen fromthe thighs backwards is sooty rather than black. Weaver-Birds and Whydahs. 55 Crimson-winged Waxbill or Aurora Finch(Pytelia phoenicoptera). The female is much duller than the male, with the crimsoncolouring less prominent, especially on the margins of the mantleand flights, where it is buffish in tint; the under parts are browner,much less ashy, and far more distinctly and broadly barred withwhitish. This sex is not described either by Dr Sharpe or CaptainShelley. In this, which is one of the larger Waxbills, one can dis-tinctly see that the beak of the male is broader at base than that ofthe female; this is probably the case in all the Waxbills, but, owingto their small size, it is impossible to follow the difference with thenaked HEAD OF MALE AND FEMALE CRIMSON-WINGED WAXBILL. Red-faced or Wieners Waxbill (Pytelia afro). The female differs from the male in having no red on the head;the upper parts browner, with only a slight yellow shade on themantle; sides of head, chin, and upper throat greyish ash, the latterwith obscure narrow buff bars ; whitish bars on the body broader ;iris light brown; bill and legs dusky (Shelley, Birds of Africa,vol. iv. part 1, p. 269). Senegal Yellow-throated Waxbill (Pytelia citerior). Adult female: Differs from the male in having no red or yellowon the head and throat; forehead ashy brown, like the crown ; sidesof head paler ash ; chin and throat white, with narrow ashy brownbars most strongly marked on the lower half, where they are asbroad as the alternate bars of white; the dark bars on the body are 56 How to Sex Cage Birds. paler, slightly broader, and more confined to the sides of the body (Shelley, I. c, p. 271). The broader w
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