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with a blemish of this kind. I have purposely confined my 

 remarks to as few pairs of birds as I could, in order to elucidate 

 the system of crossing herein recommended, so that I might be 

 able to make it all the more easily understood ; but I must not 

 forget to point out to those who desire to climb the pinnacle of 

 fame as breeders and exhibitors of canaries that it will be 

 advisable to put double, or even treble the number of birds 

 mentioned together if they wish to stand a reasonable chance of 

 success as prize takers. Another injunction I think it desirable 

 to give, and that is, do not attempt to breed too many varieties 

 at 'the same time, for those who do so very rarely succeed in 

 attaining eminence either as breeders or exhibitors. 



To breed Variegated birds you must begin by crossing the 

 Belgian and Cinnamon varieties together, or the Norwich Fancy 

 and Cinnamon birds, whichever kind you desire to cultivate. 

 The following year select the best and most evenly-marked 

 young birds, the produce of the first cross, and mate them again 

 with the Belgian or Norwich varieties, as the case may be. For 

 further particulars in regard to crossing in order to obtain 

 evenly-marked birds, I must refer you to the chapter upon 

 evenly-marked Norwich Fancy canaries. 



If you are desirous of breeding evenly-marked and Crested 

 Cinnamon canaries, which are particularly pretty, you must 

 couple a pure Cinnamon canary with a clear or grey-crested 

 Norwich Fancy canary, or, presuming that you desire to possess 

 shape in conjunction with the crest in preference to colour, then 

 you must use a Manchester Coppy canary in place of the 

 Norwich Fancy bird. From the produce of this cross you must 

 keep the crested birds those that please you most and mate 

 them again with plain-headed birds bred from crested strains, 

 either Norwich Fancy or Coppies, whichever you require. 

 By this means you will be able to propagate birds that will be 

 likely to please you, and repay you for your trouble and outlay 

 as well. Whenever the markings begin to get too light, take 

 another dip of Cinnamon Fancy blood, which will speedily 

 counterbalance the superfluity of the blood of the clear strains. 



Some of these crosses are extremely handsome, and it must 

 not be forgotten that the clear birds bred from them, with pink. 



