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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ch, ignoring colour properties, ought to compete,primarily, on the basis of shape, in a separate and distinct school from the Cinnamons of theColour family. We know that Cinnamons are Cinnamons under whatever flag they muster;but our object is to draw attention to that branch of the family which we will, for distinction,call the Yorkshire Cinnamon, as indicating the nature of the addition to the parent stem. Ournotes here will afiord the key to our remarks on page 114. The Evenly-marked examples ofthe Yorkshire Cinnamon are not classed as a variety of the Yorkshire, nor are the correspondingspecimens in the Norwich Cinnamon classed as a variety of the Norwich, but both are shownunder the Cinnamon flag, an incongruous grouping of shape with colour; the remedy forwhich is either to provide for each a separate class in its own section, or to provide two classes forEvenly-marked Cinnamons in the Cinnamon section, separated on the basis of colour v. shape. CasselLs Canaries and Cage Birds.
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ViotenL Brooks Ddy h Son LiLh YORKSHIRE CANARIES.EVENLY MARKEDYELLOW. CLEARYELLOW. (CAYENNE FED. ) ( C A Y E N N E F E D. ) evenly marked buff,(cayenne fed.) Green Canaries. 243 We might even suggest a third class, as the cross has been closely followed up with theBelgian, and the strain is by no means uncommon in some localities. These Evenly-marked Cinnamons of the Yorkshire type are very beautiful, and are in everyrespect subject to the rules affecting the Green-marked birds, to which they are, in many instances,more closely related than might be supposed. And lastly there are the Greens, the Grass-Greens, as they are sometimes called, thoughthe name singularly fails to convey a correct idea of the colour, and we shall perhaps notmake matters much clearer if we say it is a very green green, and that in the purity of thegreen and its freedom from any tinge of orange or yellow consists its value. These Greens,which belong exclusively to the North, and certain forms of them to certain

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