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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Gassells Canaries and Cage Birds
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ooks Day4S<.n,I..tl, CINNAMON CANARIES.NORWICH TYPEYF. LLOW BUFF. YELLOW. fORDlNARY TEDj CAYENNE FED) ! CAYEN N E FE D.) 139 CHAPTER XVI. THE CINNAMON CANARY. Our language is not very fruitful in words having their meaning stamped on the surface, thanksto the ups and downs of its early history and the quantity of foreign material imported, to theintense gratification of philologists and the unmeasured disgust of school-boys, whose introductionto roots and crude forms is not always connected with associations of the most pleasant character.But the name of the Canary at the head of this chapter surely tells its own story. It is the colourof, and takes its name from, the ordinary cinnamon of commerce. This name, however, is ofcomparatively recent date, though now generally accepted and firmly established. The originalCinnamon bird was a sober, quiet, unpretentious-looking Canary, and in the olden time was moregenerally known as the Dun ; and as the meaning of the word dun in our Walke

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