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Identifier: howtosexcagebird00butl (find matches)
Title: How to sex cage birds (British and foreign)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner), 1844-1925
Subjects: Cage birds Sex
Publisher: London, "The Feathered world", "Canary and cage-bird life"
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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d slightly weaker beak. It is probable that CountSalvadori also considered the same specimen to be the female, ashe states that the female is smaller. Praslin Parrot (Coracopsis barklyi). The sexed female is palpably smaller than the male, and has asmaller, weaker beak. We now come to the Palceornithince, a fairly large group ofhandsome birds, in which the sexes are generally easy to distinguishby plumage alone. I have nevertheless gone carefully over them, * Female.—Duller (Salvadori, Catalogue of Birds, vol. x.\. p. 382). African Pioninae. 127 comparing the structural differences in their beaks, which in fullyadult specimens are frequently noteworthy. Of course, it mustalways be borne in mind that young examples still show the broadnestling type of beak, which more frequently than not is characteristicin a more or less modified condition of female birds, though in somecases habits of the particular species have rendered it characteristicof the males, as I have already pointed out.
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MRS GRIFFIN S GREY PARROT. (From a Photograph by Mr W. H. Hall, Widnes.) 128 How to Sex Cage Birds. Chapter XXV.RING-NECKS AND ALLIES (Palceornithinat). Red-sided Eclectus (Eclectus pectoralis). In addition to the startling differences of plumage in the sexes—theprevalence of bright green in the male and scarlet in the female,the red iris of the male and the yellow one in the female, the redupper mandible of the male and the wholly black beak of the female—the male beak is much longer and fuller in front of the terminalhook than that of the female. Grand Eclectus (Eclectus roratus). The male of this species is very similar to that of the precedingbird, but the green colouring is a trifle more yellow, the lateral tail-feathers usually bluer, and the upper mandible is tipped withyellow. The female is thus described: Red, the head brighter ;collar round the nape covering the upper back, lower breast, andabdomen purple ; the upper breast red, tinged with purple; undertail-coverts and

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