HISTORY OF THE CANARY 



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This will be found to corroborate my 

 theory. Aldrovandus' classification in 1599 

 is given : — 



1. Common farm poultry, with Game 

 characteristics, the female slightly crested. 



2. Paduans, a crested variety with pale- 

 coloured (yellow) beak and legs, and the 

 wild plumage broken up with white, green, 

 red and yellow. 



3. A " buskined," or feather-legged race 



colour of the Cochin is of high antiquity, 

 and stating that it has been transferred 

 to many other breeds by crossing — e.g., 

 Buff Wyandotte — quotes McGrew (1901, 

 p. 24):— 



" Two distinct lines were produced under 

 different methods. One was formed from 

 Wyandotte-Buff Cochin cross ; the other 

 came through the Rhode Island Red- 

 Wyandotte cross. The Rhode Island Red 



BELGIAN CANARY. 



with similar characteristics. Evidently the 

 original Cochin. 



4. A dwarf race. The original Bantam. 



5. Turkish fowls, in which Lewis Wright 

 saw a fairly strong resemblance to the 

 Pencilled Hamburghs. (Compare my origin 

 of the Lizard Canary.) 



6. Persians. Tailless or rumpless fowls. 

 Aldrovandus also mentions : — - 



7. P^rizzled Fowl. 



8. Woolly Fowl. The Silkie Fowl of the 

 present day. 



The term " Buff " in poultry indicates 

 colour, not quality of feather. The buff 

 colour has been grafted on 

 to the different varieties of 

 poultry exactly in the same 

 manner as cinnamon in Cana- 

 ries — e.g., Cinnamon Norwich, 

 Cinnamon Crests, Cinnamon-marked York- 

 shires. 



Davenport, after showing that the buff 



Buff 



Poultry and 

 Cinnamon 

 Canaries. 



SCOTCH FANCY CANARY. 



is, however, as is well known, a direct 

 descendant of the Buff Cochin. The Buff 

 Plymouth Rocks were derived directly or 

 indirectly from the Buff Cochin. The his- 

 tory of the Buff Leghorn is the same — the 

 offspring of a yellow Danish Leghorn 

 cock and Buff Cochin pullets mated with 

 a yellow Leghorn hen. The produce — ■ 

 three-fourths yellow Leghorn and one- 

 fourth Buff Cochin — gave (Wyckoff. 1904, 

 p. 527) the first Buff Leghorns ever shown." 



The Buff " Orpingtons," a highly modern 

 and mongrel breed — have a similar histor\-, 

 being chiefly Buff Cochin and Dorking 

 (Wright, 1902, p. 296). 



The behaviour of the buff colour in 

 these crosses is exactly the same as we 

 have shown to occur in the cinnamon 

 colour of Canaries ; for the Buff Leghorns, 

 for instance, were not obtained directly 

 from the buff mother, but from her 

 sons, in the same manner as we have 



