Meaning of amethyst starling | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of violet-backed starling.

Examples

“Now, in certain lights (for afterwards I saw⟳ the bird many times) the plumage does not appear⟳ copper-coloured but the prevailing appearance is purple, and in Rhodesia the egg-collecting schoolboys call⟳ the amethyst starling a “purple-back”. Apart from his marvellous purple beauty I doubt⟳ if any bird has a breast of a purer and more gleaming white.”

“In western Arabia and northern Abyssinia females of the amethyst starling are very uniform earthy brown above, though the males are like⟳ those of the nominate⟳ race⟳; thus C. l. arabicus Grant and Mackworth-Praed is a well-established race⟳.”

“One of his hens was being attacked by an amethyst starling, plucking her downy feathers to line its nest.”

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