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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rass Parrakeet (Neophema pulchella). The female is smaller than the male, has a thicker, shorter beak,but differs as follows: Above duller green; frontal band bluepassing over and behind the eyes; a line before the blue frontalband, and lores pale yellowish; cheeks, tinged with blue ; wings asin the male, only duller, and with no red-chestnut spot on the innerupper wing-coverts; throat and breast yellowish green ; tail as inthe male (Salvadori, Catalogue of Birds, vol. xx. p. 576). Splendid Grass Parrakeet (Neophema splendida). In the sexes of this species the beak differs very little, that of thefemale is perhaps a trifle broader; fortunately she differs a gooddeal in colour. Much duller than the male ; face and upper wing- * There are no sexed specimens in the Museum, but what I take to be thefemale has a shorter beak with less acute terminal hook: it is not only muchduller and with more restricted orange patch on the abdomen than the probablemales, but its wings are much less blue.
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BUDGERIGAR. J^L, Broadtails, Etc. 139 coverts pale lazuline blue; no yellowish tinge on the lores as in thefemale of N. pulchella ; no scarlet colour on the chest, which isgreen ; upper parts, including the nape and crown, green with orangetinge (Salvadori, Catalogue of Birds, vol. xx. p. 577). Antipodes Island Parrakeet (Cyanorhamphus unicolor).Female.—Of smaller size and paler plumage that the male; billgreyish-white, the upper mandible brownish-black in its apicalportion, and with a clouded bluish spot in front of each nostril(Salvadori, Catalogue of Birds, vol. xx. p. 581). New Zealand Parr/ -xeet (Cyanorhamphus novce-zealandice). Adult Female.—Like the male, only smaller, and the frontalred cap not so conspicuous (Salvadori, Catalogue of Birds, vol. xx.p. 583). Saissets Parrakeet (Cyanorhamphus saisseli). A rarely imported local race of the preceding. The female issmaller than the male. Golden-crowned Parrakeet (Cyanorhamphus auriceps). The sexes are much alike, but the femal

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