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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VmoentBrooks DayiSoiiLith NORWICH CANARIES. DARK-CRESTED BUFF. VARIEGATED CRESTED YELLOW (CAYENNE-FED.) (CAYENNE-FED.) VARIEOATED CRESTED BUFF.(CAYENNE fed) CHAPTER XV. BREEDING CRESTED NORWICH. Our pathway here is somewhat clearer and freer from difficulties than we found it in our lastchapter. The reader will, however, think we have only a very moderate estimate of his mentalcalibre if we again preface our observations on breeding this, the last of the many branches of theNorw^ich family, by saying he must first have a definite notion of what he is really going to do.To breed Crested Norwich birds, to be sure! Just so; but then there are so many forms of CrestedCanaries which lay claim to this title that it is not easy to say which are legitimate representativesand which among them hold their position only upon sufferance. In all the other ramifications ofthis great Norwich tree a most rigidly exacting demand is made for a display of the leadingcharacteristics of the family, little

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