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CANARIES, HYBRIDS, AND BRITISH BIRDS 



CHILLI (AMERICAN RED PEPPER). 



Ciipsunm Aniiuuni J.fuf^um iHol}. 



clicniist' to wliosf cxainiiiatioii lie sub- 

 mitted tlic birds will spcai< lor itscll' : 



"22(i, Ilitih Slrccl, .Similrrlaiid. 

 "'riicrc is lull I he li'ust I race of a piiiiiu'nl or 

 forrifiii colouriiiL; inatU'r ol' any kinil on any ot 

 the feathers I loot; from liie liiids nuniliered 

 respectively 1, 2, and .'*>. 



".loiiN .1. Nicholson, F.C.S." 



Tliis portion ol' our subject lias bad 

 ratber a |)ers<>iial ebaraeter, but we liave 

 detailed it as an bistoriea.l lact. and as 

 funiisbin^ the first |)ublislied account of 

 the first clieniical test to wbicli tliese birds 

 were |)ublicly submitted, and thiir satis- 

 factory passajfc throii<,di the ordeal. 



We next find these same birds ligurino 



at tiic Crystal Palace Show, in I-'ebruaiy, 



IST'i. by which time our 



Mr. Bemrose's ,,,,,1 jhitcd Irieiid had 

 Exhibits. , ., , . , 



orown a new tail, winch 



everyone said had been painted loi- the 

 occasion ; and thouoh he was ])assed over 

 as a sus))ic:ioiis character, some of his 



companions Avent through their ex- 

 amination and obtained the diploma 

 of \'.H.C"., which is ]XTha])S a rather 

 sijfnificant comment on the knowledjTe 

 of tliat day. The year 1872 passed 

 away, and the memory of these ill- 

 fated birds died with it, till Feb- 

 ruary, 1S7;3, again brought round the 

 Crystal Palace Show, when, to the 

 astonishment of everybody, the late 

 Mr. Edward Bemrose, of Derliy, one 

 of the keenest fanciers of the day, 

 and a man on whom no one could 

 lay the finger of sus]nci(>n, but who 

 was the very Iriend of Mr. I51akston's 

 to whom we have referred, brought 

 out two specimens of the same 

 school, which he asserted, on his 

 word of honour as a gentleman, he 

 had motilted himself in his own 

 house, and which owed their extra- 

 ordinary colour to nothing but the 

 peculiar diet on which they fiad been 

 fed. Despite Mr. Benu"ose"s dignified 

 asseverations, however, he left the 

 Palace Show under the inqiutation 



NATAL PEPPER. 



Capsicum Annuurn Atuminnlum (tiutj. 



