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So the silver one is easy to tell, with the cinamon blueface, the cinamon is the brownish colour on its back right? And the black faced red breast, the black face is the dark feathers around the head? I got confused about the colours because the 2nd and 3rd have grey splashes on their back, I wasn't sure what that was. Can I see an example of a female having a bib? Do they less obvious bibs than, say the silver male in the pic, or is there not much difference?
Yes, a blueface (without cinnamon) would be very dark, almost black...let me find a pic.
This is a young blueface male, he doesn't yet have his blue face:
The black-faced red breast should have a completely black head like this guy:
But his (OP's bird) looks kind of faded. But the regular red breasteds don't get quite that much red on them. The OP's looks kind of like he's been getting picked on, which would make his feathers look weird.
I don't have a pic of my bibbed silver female that I used to have, but she looked exactly like the silver in the pic except for the pink vent feathers. This female is pied wild but appears to have a bib to the untrained eye:
And many people confuse this on a pearl female (back right) as a "male's" bib:
And this red breasted hen has what some confuse as a bib:
