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meiit, both Buff and Yellow, with which 

 suitable mating can be effected when once 

 the crest has been introduced and de- 

 veloped in the cinnamon form. 



We need not pursue this farther ; it is 

 simply a matter of following up the work 

 begun ; but it should be borne in mind that 

 the largest and densest Crests possible 

 should be selected to commence with, 

 continuing such selection : also the more 

 feathery the Cinnamon cock, the better, so 

 long as he has good colovu- with it. 



There are many forms in wjiich the 

 results of crossing in the way we have 

 endeavoured to explain will 

 Use of Greens ^]-jq„. themselves, to which 

 in Cinnamon 1 ■ 1 



Breeding. "^^'^ thmk it unnecessary to 



refer. The presence of any 

 such form will at once suggest to the 

 breeder a method of dealing with it in 

 accordance with the laws which regulate 

 Cinnamon-breeding, and the law of common- 

 sense, which directs all breeding opera- 

 tions, apart from special considerations 

 arising from pecidiar conditions. There is 

 one feature, however, to which we must 

 refer before dismissing the Cinnamon. 

 What is to be done with the house fidl of 

 Green birds, the produce of the Norwich 

 cock and Cinnamon hens, to which Ave 

 directed attention at an early part of this 

 chapter ? Are they useless for the purpose 

 of Cinnamon-breeding '? On the contrary, 

 they are very valuable ; but when we left 

 them there was nothing in the breeding- 

 room to which they could be mated with 

 such effect as with some of the birds result- 

 ing from the combinations we have sug- 

 gested. But bearing in mind that Cinnamon 

 blood infused from the male side will 



assert itself in any cross, it will be evident 

 that if the hens, at least, of this batch of 

 Greens — which now contains an addition of 

 strong Norwich blood — be paired with the 

 original Cinnamons, the result will be an 

 improved edition of the bird, deeper in 

 colour and richer in tone, but not so rich 

 and bright as when obtained in the other 

 way. In the same manner, if it be thought 

 advisable, for the sake of some exceptionally 

 superior crest formation, to imj)ort that 

 feature through a Crested cock, it can be 

 done in that way, although the direct 

 result will be, not Crested Cinnamons, but 

 Crested Greens, which can, in the next 

 generation, be made Cinnamon by mating 

 with pure Cinnamon cocks. Birds of singu- 

 lar beauty, however, can be obtained from 

 these Plainhead and Crested Greens by 

 mating with pink-eyed Clear Yellow or with 

 Variegated Yellow Cinnamon cocks — a plan 

 which must be adopted in the case of the 

 Crested birds if it be desired to breed 

 Variegated or Marked Crested Cinnamons, 

 because the mating of a Self-coloured 

 Crested Green with a pure Cinnamon would 

 produce Self-coloured Crested Cinnamons, 

 though, from the fact of the Green being 

 full of Crest blood, there might be a few 

 irregular sports. Self-coloured Crested Cin- 

 namons can be more readily obtained in 

 this way than by following up heavy 

 variegation till light feathers be all elimi- 

 nated and a perfect self-coloiu- result, 

 though the latter process might produce 

 the more brilliant biril. This outline of 

 pairing, though much condensed, will be a 

 useful guide to the breeder in producing 

 the several varieties of the Cinnamon 

 Canarv. 



