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the Canary Isles, from which it derives its 

 name, is, in its natural state, of a buff and 

 olivaceous-green colour, and does not pos- 

 sess a title of the beauty for which the 

 same family is remarkable in its present 

 condition. 



When you undertake to pair your birds, 

 wishing to produce young ones of a regu- 

 lar and uniform colour, you must be care- 

 ful not to place those of the same shade 

 together. Should you neglect this pre- 

 caution, your birds will be less finely 

 marked, for while the colour of the young 

 reared from those of a mealy hue, will be 

 a dusky, dirty white, that of birds raised 

 from a fine jonque or deep yellow male, 

 with a mealy or pale female, will be of a 

 deep straw r colour, as the young in every 

 instance follow more the tint of the father 

 than of the mother-bird. This rule like- 

 wise occurs with all the other varieties, 

 and great care should always be taken in 

 the disposition of the old birds; provided 



