CINNAMON CANARY. 



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CHAPTER XXI 



THE CINNAMON CANARY 



T[IF, nanio of tlic Canni-^' nt llic head of alteration in the coloni- tin name lias 



(iiis elia])tei' surely tells its own storw It oraduallv alteiX'd. and as llu- (j\iiet dun has 



is the eoldui' oF, and takes its name I'roni, ni\(ai ])laee to the richer and wanner eiuna- 



the oi'dniary cinnamon of eonuneree. 'i'his mon. so has the one name displaced tiie 



name, however, is of coin];arativel\- recent other. The \'ello\\ Cinnamon of old times 



date, thoniih now jiCueralK' accepted and (reiiHanher that the technical terms \\'llow 



firndy established. The orininal Cinnamon and HiilT run throunh the wiiole Canary 



bird v.as a solier. (]uiet. uni)relentioiis- family) was a bird in which the i)rcvailino- 



looking' Canary, and in the olden time was \r.i\v bi-dwn. such as it was, was tinjfed 



more generally known as the Dun: and with a greenish-yellow or perhai)s 



as the nieaidnfi of tiie word "" dun "" in our yellow isli-orcen would couNHy a belter 



'"Walker" is " of a dun colour."" we nuist idea anil the more <)-encral or ''level" 



leax'c it there us expressing in very in- this pale dun tone, and tin more e\cidy 



telligible terms a correct idea of what the distributed. Ihe iictter the l)iid. In HulTs, 



colour ri-all\' is. Many of the old schocil the dun was more decided, more true to 



still c;dl the bird by this name, which w;is name and cliaract( r. singularly soft and 



certainly more appro|)riati' as regards the mcdiow in tone and et)Vered wil h a delicious 



old style ol' bird than the modern one, and bloom; in lael. the whole bnd had more 



it may be that with an impro\cment and of the dove-colour abimt it than an\thing 



