CHAPTER XV. 



THE CINNAMON CRESTED, 



THERE is probably no member of the British Canaria family 

 more interesting than this, and I am pleased to find that the 

 variety is coming more into favour every year, and that classes 

 are now provided for it at all our best shows. The reason for 

 this breed not being so popular as the Norwich Crests is that 

 good specimens are more difficult to obtain, and require a 

 much longer time to bring them to a state of perfection. I 

 bred the first specimen 6f this variety that I ever saw, some 

 thirty-six years ago, but it is quite possible that someone 

 may have bred them before me. 



I have also been fortunate enough to breed some of the 

 best specimens of this variety that I have ever seen, and one 

 of these, a young cock, evenly-marked and crested, which 

 I sold to a Mr. Hillyer, of Leicester, took, amongst other 

 honours, first prize at the Aquarium Show in London, and 

 also first prize at the Crystal Palace, at Sydenham, and he 

 is the only male bird I have seen that approached anything 

 like perfection. 



His mother was a Cinnamon variegated plum-head, bred from 

 a green hen, the produce of a pure well-bred Cinnamon hen 

 and a crested-bred Norwich cock. His father was an even- 

 marked and Crested Norwich bird, whose mother was bred 

 between a Cinnamon canary and a Lancashire Coppy. The 

 crested blood in him was all of high-class quality. 



There is no difficulty in breeding Cinnamon crests, especially 

 self colours. Put a Cinnamon cock bred for a few generations 



