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Updated: October 28, 2026
This may be illustrated by the practice followed by some bird-fanciers, who pull out a few feathers from the breast of nestling bullfinches, and from the head or neck of young gold-pheasants, in order to ascertain their sex; for in the males, these feathers are immediately replaced by coloured ones. Mr. Blyth, in Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History, vol. i. 1837, p. 300. Mr.