. The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign . ed anything since they twainbecame one, begins to be uneasy, and wonders whether he has been accepting a little bill. Itisnt often she goes into his bird-room; but she did yesterday, and there lay his diary full ofmysterious memoranda and a note about something falling due in a few days. The little affair,when due, brings with it only a repetition of his disappointment. He has another Yellow bird,however, a Norwich bird, or at any rate he bought it for such, and he resolves to try what it willdo, and pairs it with one of
. The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign . ed anything since they twainbecame one, begins to be uneasy, and wonders whether he has been accepting a little bill. Itisnt often she goes into his bird-room; but she did yesterday, and there lay his diary full ofmysterious memoranda and a note about something falling due in a few days. The little affair,when due, brings with it only a repetition of his disappointment. He has another Yellow bird,however, a Norwich bird, or at any rate he bought it for such, and he resolves to try what it willdo, and pairs it with one of his Cinnamon hens. Hope has nearly died out of his breast, and heawaits the chipping of this nest with some anxiety, but to his great delight finds there are atleast two or three pink-eyed young ones, which, while they puzzle him the more, lead to mutualexplanations and restored domestic confidence. The solution of the enigma is very blood cannot be introduced with direct results, except from the male side; or, to use a Cassells Canaries and Cage Birds. VmcBntBroofci Daj & C I N N A M 0 N C A rj A R 1 E S, EVENLY MARKED CRESTED BUFF. EVENLY MARKED YELLOW NORWICHTYPE. YO R KS H I R E T Y P E . I C A Y E N N E F E D 1 . (N 0 N C A Y E N N E F E D.) F VENLY MARKED YELLOW,NORWICH lYPE. (cayenne feu.) Curious Effects of Crossing. 147 simile we have frequently adopted, no scion whatever can be grafted on a Cinnamon stock, but theCinnamon can be worked on any bottom. If a cock Canary, not being a Cinnamon or crossedfrom the variety, be paired with a Cinnamon hen, the produce will not show the pink eye or anycinnamon feathers, but will consist of Self-coloured Greens, cocks and hens, and Variegated , however, we invert the order of things, and infuse the Cinnamon blood by mating a Cinnamoncock with, say, a Norwich hen, we obtain altogether different results. The progeny wil^, for themost part, consist of Self-coloured and Variegated Cinnamons, with an o
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