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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