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How to Sex Cage Birds. 



Orange-headed Meadow-Starling (Amblyrhamphus holosericeus). 



The bill of the female is smaller and more slender than in the 

 male. In plumage Dr Sclater describes her as similar, but in an 

 example in the Museum (probably immature) the deep orange of the 

 under parts is represented by mottling on throat and breast and the 

 abdomen is browner. 



Typical Troupials (Sturnellince). 

 Louisianian Troupial (Stumella magna). 



The female has a smaller and shorter bill than the male; above a 

 trifle paler, so that the black markings seem more distinct; pale 



HEAD OK MALE AND FEMALE MILITARY TROl PIAL. 



stripes on head whiter, the black breast-belt ( less defined, more 

 mottled, the white .patch at sides of hind throat replaced by huffish ; 

 the yellow of under parts paler ; flanks whiter, less sandy brownish 

 in tint. 



Military Troupial (Trupialis militaris). 



The female is much smaller than the male : her bill shorter, weaker, 

 and less curved; she is browner above, with paler edges to the 

 feathers ; more sandy blown and more regularly marked from bill 

 backwards; tail regularly barred with black: throat buff- whitish ; 

 sides of neck, front of breast, and ear-coverts ashy, ticked with 

 black; sides and flanks ashy olive-brown with dusky streaks; 

 scarlet restricted to centre of breast, back of chest, and abdomen. 



