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How to Sex Cage Birds. 



HKAD OF MALE AND FEMALE OF THE GREEN WOODPECKEK. 



Chaptek Will. 



We now come to the order Picartee, which includes the Swifts, Goat- 

 suckers, Woodpecker-like birds, Kingfishers, Rollers, Bee-Eaters, 

 Hoopoes, Cuckoos, etc. Of the first two, I think one need take no 

 notice; for although T once succeeded in keeping a Swift alive for a 

 month, and the European Goatsucker has once been kept and 

 exhibited in Germany, neither of these birds can fairly be regarded 

 as cage-birds. 1 shall therefore prooeed at once to the, — 



