. The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign . Cassells Canaries and »,:llh SCOTCH FANCY CANARIES. CLEARYELLOWHEN. CLEARBUFFCOCK CLEAR YELLOW COCK. 223 CHAPTER XXV. THE SCOTCH FANCY CANARY. This in every way riiost remarkable Canary is, as its name suggests, a creation of our neigh-bours across the Tweed, and is wholly and entirely an exclusive speciality, as is the postuurvogel in Belgium, of which bird it is, doubtless, an offshoot, and is, in truth, the postuurvogel of Scotland. It is known also as the Glasgow Fancy and Glasgow Don,
. The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign . Cassells Canaries and »,:llh SCOTCH FANCY CANARIES. CLEARYELLOWHEN. CLEARBUFFCOCK CLEAR YELLOW COCK. 223 CHAPTER XXV. THE SCOTCH FANCY CANARY. This in every way riiost remarkable Canary is, as its name suggests, a creation of our neigh-bours across the Tweed, and is wholly and entirely an exclusive speciality, as is the postuurvogel in Belgium, of which bird it is, doubtless, an offshoot, and is, in truth, the postuurvogel of Scotland. It is known also as the Glasgow Fancy and Glasgow Don, the Glasgowbreeders preferring, we believe, the national name, and only tolerating the other as reflectingso-ne honour on the city as being the head-quarters of the bird. East and south of Edin-burgh the name Don is general, and the Glasgow definition piebald, the equivalent of ourvariegated, becomes flecked, these differences in name and idiom being sufficiently markedto indicate the distribution of the bird geographically—a matter which further affords indirectinformation to the fancier who reco
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