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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sense,then, that we use the expression mixed breed, and do not mean to imply that theYorkshire Canary can be compounded out of raw material in a year. Too much may havebeen attempted at once and in too many directions at the same time with the view ofimproving the bird, which has come to the front with an unmistakable rush during thelast few years, but it will be found that those who have turned out the best specimens are aclass of men who, setting themselves to do a certain thing, carefully think it out and do it,selecting their material, building, shoring and propping up the edifice, leaving nothing wantingand no one point exaggerated at the expense of something else. If we were required to find a history for this bird we think we should not be far from thetruth if we were to say that it probably owes its origin to the fact that in both Lancashire andYorkshire there have been for no one knows how loncj two varieties of Canaries of the erect school. CasselLs Canaries and Cage Birds.
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Vmoent Brooks Day* Son.itli YORKSHIRE CANARIES LEAR BUFF CLEAR YELLOW The Yorkshire Canary. 239 Crested and Plainhead, in some respects resembling each other, and in others very dissimilar ; andwhile one set of breeders adopted the one form and cultivated it to an astonishing extent, a secondwith equal care followed up the other channel and, toning down every asperity, accomplishedthe object sought : in the one case the majestic Coppy and Plainhead proper resulted, and inthe other the refined Yorkshire. Before proceeding to give a detailed description of the bird, we may state in brief itsplace in the Shape section of the family by comparing it with the Canary we have justdismissed. It is to the Scotch Fancy just what the Scotch bird is to the Belgian. We definedthe former to be a curvihnear edition of the latter, and we cannot give a better general idea ofthe Yorkshire bird than by describing it as a rigidly straight version of the Scotch ideal—thecrescent-shaped, nervous bird bein

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