. Canaries, hybrids, and British birds in cage and aviary. BREEDING EVENLY-MARKED CANARIES 24T pointed to round, becoming squarer and squarer in each succeeding feather till the tip is merely rounded off at the corners, the inner flights or concluding portion of the secondary feathers, however, again becoming more ovate and less substantial in their structure. Allien the wing is folded and at rest the marginal line is entirely changed, being almost as irregular as is that of the human hand when the fingers are extended and consequently at rest. Close the hand, as when in the act serious blemis
. Canaries, hybrids, and British birds in cage and aviary. BREEDING EVENLY-MARKED CANARIES 24T pointed to round, becoming squarer and squarer in each succeeding feather till the tip is merely rounded off at the corners, the inner flights or concluding portion of the secondary feathers, however, again becoming more ovate and less substantial in their structure. Allien the wing is folded and at rest the marginal line is entirely changed, being almost as irregular as is that of the human hand when the fingers are extended and consequently at rest. Close the hand, as when in the act serious blemishes which it must be sought to eliminate. The breeder will have to content him- self with very slow progress on the journey, and even approximations to what he desires must be accepted and made the most of. Where we found that any particular pairing had the direct effect of fixing the point aimed at. we shoidd again pair the birds so bred, either among themselves, by select- ing cocks and hens from the same nest, or. A PERFECTLY-MARKED WING. (.The six inner (lights alone are dark.) A WING SHOWING SEVERAL DEFECTS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO BE PRODUCED EITHER SEPARATELY OR COMBINED. of grasping, and the tips of the fingers will be found to be as much in a straight line as is the margin of the wing when in action. The second illustration on this page represents a type of wing to which we made reference on page 219. We insert the cut here to show the breeder in one view several defects that he will be sure to produce either separately or combined. There is the otherwise perfect wing, but that the larger coverts corresponding to the dark flights are dark also. Note, this is not exacth^ a blemish, but the wing is better without them, for we have just shown how apt the green or cinnamon colour is to ntn over, and the next steji would probably be a few green or cinnamon feathers in the margin of the saddle. There is also the mixed wing, an unfortunate white feather intruding itself among the
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