"amethyst starling" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1954, James P[aul] Chapin, “Cinnyricinclus leucogaster leucogaster (Boddaert)”, in The Birds of the Belgian Congo (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History; 75B), part 4, New York, N.Y.: American Museum of Natural History, →OCLC, Section B (Systematic List of Species and Races, with Notes on Distribution, Habits, and Food), Order Passeriformes, Family Sturnidae, Subfamily Sturninae, page 146:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2010, Per Wästberg, translated by Tom Geddes, chapter 10, in The Journey of Anders Sparrman, London: Granta, →ISBN, page 172:",
          "text": "One of his hens was being attacked by an amethyst starling, plucking her downy feathers to line its nest.",
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          "text": "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.",
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