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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upon which Belgians are arranged, but is more elaborate in detail when ittouches colour distinctions. We say it is the same in principle, because the element of shapeis the prime agent in determining the first great division, viz., the separation of the sexes, which,it is obvious, results from an admitted disparity between the general proportions of the male andfemale, and is essentially the kind of arrangement we should expect to find in shows which arenot mere spectacular displays. The connection between the two systems, however, may besaid to cease at this point, though this point of resemblance runs through both classifica-tions with an unbroken thread. Underlying the subdivisions may be traced some resemblanceto our English tastes, though that again is lost sight of when marking, the apple of anEnglish fanciers eye, is swallowed up in comprehensive variegation. We give the recognisedstandard forms with such explanatory notes as are necessary :— Cassells Canaries and Cage Birds.
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Vmueiil Brook.s,Uay&Soo,Lni. SCOTCH FANCY CANARIES. BUFF PIEBALD. YELLOW PIEBALD YELLOW PIEBALD. Scotch Fancy Canaries. 229 Classification of Scotch Fancy Canaries.Cocks. Hens. (a) Clean Yellow. (b) Clean Yellow. (c) Clean Buff. (d) Clean Buff. (i) Foul-feathered Yellow. (/) Foul-feathered Yellow, (g) Foul-feathered Buff. (Ji) Foul-feathered Buff. (/) Piebald Yellow. (7) Piebald Yellow. (k) Piebald Buff (/) Piebald Buff. (in) Yellow Green. («) Yellow Green. (0) Buff Green. (/) Buff Green. Tn all, sixteen separate and distinct classes, which, in the Glasgow schedules, are letteredas above. The Clean or, as we are accustomed to call them, Clear classes require no remarkother than to notice that in adopting the word Clean it is not meant to convey a distinctionwithout a difference, but applies to the external feather only, while the English term isunderstood to refer to every part of the feather, whether stalk, flue, or web, and is essentiallyan expression pregnant with meaning in i

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