Fern is one of my favorites. She is a blue
American Cinnamon Violet. The picture doesn't begin to do her
justice. In real life, her whole body shimmers with bluish purple
highlights, giving her an almost surrealistic opalesque
quality.
Below are two cinnamons out of the same clutch.
The one on the left is a Seagreen American Cinnamon. Her sister, on
the right, is a Whiteface American Cinnamon Violet.
They are only 9 weeks old in this picture. When
they mature, their colors will be more intense and the bird on the
left will have a melon-colored forehead.
And below is a green American
Cinnamon.
Notice that she has a red face and reddish bib
of a normal green peachface lovebird. However,her body color is
lightened to a sort of pea-green-soup color and her flights are a
tannish-brown rather than black. This is due to a decrease in
psittacin (pigment) in the feather. This also leaves the feather
shafts brown rather than black.
And below is a green American cinnamon violet.
Notice that the violet factor darkens the rump to a periwinkle color,
and also darkens the overall body color ever so
slightly.
And here is an American Cinnamon and a Normal
Green for comparison. It is not a quality picture, but it does show
the difference between the color of the two.
And one more photo, showing a comparison
of the American cinnamon (left) to an American Yellow (bottom) and a
normal green peachface (top).
The Cinnamon has a more solid color base to its
body than the Yellow (which has the grey is "penciling.") It also has
a bluer rump, and it's flights are darker brown than the
Yellow's.
Compared to the normal green (above and behind
it), the cinnamon is more of a tannish-green. Its flights are much
lighter (tannish brown, rather than black like the normal green
peachface's.)