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How to Sex Cage Birds. 



Lesser Hill-Mynah (Mainatus religiosus). 



As with the preceding, the difference, apart from form of bill, 

 seems to consist chiefly in the inferior size of the female and her 

 shorter wing. 



Glossy Starling's (Lamprocolius, etc.). 



Green Glossy Starling (Lamprocolius chalybeus). 



Purple-hkaded Glossy Starling (Lamprocolims purpureus). 



The only sexual difference indicated for these two species is 

 that the males are generally larger 

 than the females. 



Rufous-Vented Glossy Starling 



(Spreo pulcfter) 



The female is noticeably smaller than 

 the male. 



Long-tailed Gloss\ Starling 

 ( Lamprotornis ccwdatus). 



Although no sexual difference has 

 Keen indicated, there can be little doubt 

 that the female is smaller than the 

 male. 



In all the true Starlings, in addition 

 to the differences above noted, the bills 



of the sexes should be compared : for, 

 although the sexual characters are not 

 so well defined in the bills of Stumidtt 

 (Mainatus excepted) as in many other 

 families, the longer and somewhat more 

 slender type of bill would always be 



LONG-TAILED GLOSSY 

 STARLING. 



{Photograph by Hiss Alder son.) likely to indicate a cock bird. 



Bower- Birds (PtUonorhynchidm). 

 Satin Bower-Bird (Ptilonorhynchua molaceus). 



The female is smaller than the male, has a shorter wing ; her 

 prevalent colour is greyish-green, instead of black shut with Prussian- 

 blue, with cinnamon on the outer part of the wing, golden brownish 

 tail-feathers, somewhat ashy ear-coverts, slightly brownish throat, 



and the rest of the under parts somewhat yellowish, all the feathers 

 being crossed by blackish bars, some of them with a looped inner 



