. Canaries, hybrids, and British birds in cage and aviary. THE LANCASHIRE COPPY CANARY. I never possessed. The spangled back appeared at the first moult, just as occurs in the spangling of the Lizard Canary. 'Second prize. City of Glasgow show (1909). I have also bred several other Siskin- Canary hj'brids with irregular or broken Lizard caps. The Canary ]>arcnt in each case was of. THE FRILLED CANARY. a strain with cinnamon blood, but with no Lizard cross. Li addition to these characteristics of the Lizard occurring in the hybrids from a cinnamon-bred Canary, we know the Lizard and London F
. Canaries, hybrids, and British birds in cage and aviary. THE LANCASHIRE COPPY CANARY. I never possessed. The spangled back appeared at the first moult, just as occurs in the spangling of the Lizard Canary. 'Second prize. City of Glasgow show (1909). I have also bred several other Siskin- Canary hj'brids with irregular or broken Lizard caps. The Canary ]>arcnt in each case was of. THE FRILLED CANARY. a strain with cinnamon blood, but with no Lizard cross. Li addition to these characteristics of the Lizard occurring in the hybrids from a cinnamon-bred Canary, we know the Lizard and London Fancy Canaries both show the same unstable character of plu- mage as the original cinnamon, both of these varieties being fit to exhibit only during the show season after their first moult, owing to subsequent changes in plumage, and both being extremely alike in nest-feather and again at three or four years of age. Consequently we may safely infer that both Lizard and London Fancy have been derived from cinnamon Canaries. THE EVOLUTION OF THE CANARY Bearing in mind these points with regartl to cinnamon wild birds and hybrids, let VIS now turn to the Canary and study the earliest authentic records of its different varieties. We have already mentioned that the. 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 Robson, John; Lewer, Sidney Herbert, 1862-. London : Cassell
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