. The canary, its varieties, management and breeding. Canaries. 76 The Canary,. CHAPTER XI. OUR TURNCRESTS. HEUE is yet another variety of our favorite songster w^hich I must not omit to mention, or which, perhaps, more correctly speaking, may be found as it were by accident in most or all the kinds we have named, to wit, the Turncrest. With some people these are great favorites, more especially with the lower classes of bird fanciers from whom anything curious or novel appears to possess a great charm. Their peculiarity consists in having a crest of feathers on the top of the head turned, as
. The canary, its varieties, management and breeding. Canaries. 76 The Canary,. CHAPTER XI. OUR TURNCRESTS. HEUE is yet another variety of our favorite songster w^hich I must not omit to mention, or which, perhaps, more correctly speaking, may be found as it were by accident in most or all the kinds we have named, to wit, the Turncrest. With some people these are great favorites, more especially with the lower classes of bird fanciers from whom anything curious or novel appears to possess a great charm. Their peculiarity consists in having a crest of feathers on the top of the head turned, as it were, the wrong way, and hanging down over the beak and eyes, some- thing like an old-fashioned wool mop, or, if the asso- ciation be not too irreverent, like the crop of a Cister- cian monk. In general, as might be expected from the above remarks, they will be found most plentiful amongst the common low-bred birds of the country districts, and associated with the greatest amount of ugliness in the outline of their figure. To any one with a cultivated taste or with a natural eye for beauty of form, this condemns them at once ; but in propor- tion as you can find this elegant appendage in birds of more aristocratic breed, such as in the Belgians; of course, this objection loses its point, and you will have a bird of peculiar elegance and beauty. Such an one. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smith, F. London, Warne
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