Identifier: illustratedbooko00blak (find matches)
Title: The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Blakston, W. A Swaysland, W Wiener, August F
Subjects: Canaries Cage birds
Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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but it is the putting the finishing touchesto the work and turning out perfection, without a taint of imperfection, that shows the master-workman ; and we have seen really clear gems, clear throughout, with snowy-white silky flue, thatit v/ould be a sin to put into competition with birds blowing black all over. And here we drawour line, and define Clear to mean not having the remotest tinge of dark colour in quill, flue, oifeather; birds from which every trace of the green has been eliminated; which have a clear, silky,snowy-white under-flue, and show by it that they have arrived at the goal. There is not a fancierwho has ever exhibited a high-class bond fide Clear of his own breeding that would not object tobe beaten by a bird with dark flue; and doing as you would be done by is not a bad plan tofollow, even in digesting a simple question in Canary classification. We have no desire to turn the dark-flue birds out of their companionship with the Clears Cassells Canaries and CaceBirds.
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NORWICH CANARIES VA Rl ECATE D YELLOW,(CAYENNE-FEDl EVENLY MARKED YELLOW.(CAYENNE-FED.) CLEAR BUFF,(CA Y EN N E- FE D.) Difference between Jonque and Mealy. loi without finding a place for them, and we submit that their proper place is in the bond fideTicked division, which we define to mean not lightly variegated, in the sense in which we haveexplained the latter, but simply as having grey or grizzled feathers or dark flue. Nineteen out ofevery twenty of them are ticked, for a smoky thigh and dark flue are first cousins. It isfrequently only the delicate flue of the silky, downy covering of the thighs that is dark; and solong as the thighs remain in good repair, and the bird sits still, the discoloration is not perceptiblewithout looking twice at it. But the bird flies up against the wires and uncovers his thighs, andthen it is plain enough: the colour is there, and the bird owes his deep jonque to it, and is not clear,and his grizzled thighs are as much ticked as is the head or neck

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