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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"

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female has a slightly longer and narrower beak than themale, and shows less black on the abdomen; she is also a rathersmaller bird. Chestnut-breasted Finch (Munia castaneithorax). The female is smaller than the male; the beak is weaker, finertowards tip, and paler in colour; the chestnut on the breast is saidto be paler, but this character varies, the broken black belt border-ing it is narrower, and the black bars on the flanks narrower; thehead browner, less distinctly mottled, the back of the rump and theupper tail-coverts straw coloured, whereas in the male the rump iswashed with bright cinnamon fading off into ochreous on the uppertail coverts ; the tail more ashy. Three-coloukkd Mannikin (Munia malacca). The beak of the female is weaker and the whole bird smaller thanin the male ; her head is dead black, not -lossy as in the male; andthe entire colouring less bright, the flights greyer, the rump paler;the upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers duller and with less opal-escent doss.
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JAVA SPARROW, A^L Grass-Finches. 63 Java Sparrow (Munia (Padda) oryzivora). The female is a smaller and slimmer bird than the male, withnarrower skull, and narrower, more regularly tapering beak, notquite so deep at the base when viewed in profile. Magpie Mannikin (Amauresthes fringilloides). The female is slightly smaller than the male, the white of theunder parts less pure, washed with huffish; a smaller brown patchon the sides.

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