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°f some parrots can hardly be said to be more beautiful, 
a t least according to our taste, than the females, but 
ie y differ from them in such points, as the male 
hav 
fe: 
mg a rose-coloured collar instead of, as in the 
111 ale, “a bright emeraldine narrow green collar;” or 
la fde male having a black collar instead of “ a yellow 
' e mi-collar in front,” with a pale roseate instead of a 
Pl'im-blue head . 57 As so many male birds have for 
dieir chief ornament elongated tail-feathers or elongated 
cr ests, the shortened tail, formerly described in the 
^le of a humming-bird, and the shortened crest of 
male goosander almost seem like one of the many 
°Pposite changes of fashion which we admire in our 
°' v n dresses. 
konre members of the heron family offer a still more 
°hrious case of novelty in colouring having appa- 
1 f *ntly been appreciated for the sake of novelty. The 
loung of the Ardea asha are white, the adults being 
' ar k slate-coloured ; and not only the young, but the 
ac| ults of the allied Buplius coromandus in their winter 
Pmrnage are white, this colour changing into a rich 
^den-buff during the breeding-season. It is incredible 
^at the young of these two species, as well as of some 
°flier members of the same family , 58 should have been 
s P ( -'cially rendered pure white and thus made conspi- 
e Uou s 
to their enemies; or that the adults of one of 
^ese two species should have been specially rendered 
"hite during the winter in a country which is never 
n See Jerdon on the genus Pakeomis, 1 Birds of India,’ vol. i. p. 
_ 8 - 260 , 
i,J 8 tile young of Ardea rafeecem and A. ccerulea of the U. States are 
c k ' V i Se wa it e , the adults being coloured in accordance with their spe- 
names. Audubon Ornith. Biography,’ vol. iii. p. 410; vol. iv. 
of seems rather pleased at the thought that this remarkable change 
Plumage will greatly “ disconcert the systemutists.” 
