340 The Canary Book. 



STANDARD FOR JUDGING LIZARD CANARIES. 



Points. 



Head and cap 20 



Spangles 20 



Groundcolour 15 



"Crine," or luminosity and quality 8 



Size 7 



Condition , .. 7 



Contour and carriage 6 



Feathers, for quality and closeness 6 



Wings and tail, for blackness in hue 6 



Legs and feet 5 



Total loo 



The head must be full, broad, and flattish on the crown ; the 

 cap oval, clear, rich in colour, and well formed, and must not 

 come below the eye; it ought to terminate in front at the top 

 of the bill, and at the back at the base of the skull. The 

 spangles must be clear, regular, and well defined. The colour 

 must be rich, soft, and mellow, level throughout, and quite free 

 from any decidedly green tinge. 



TYPE. The bird from which our illustration was taken was 

 the property of Mr. T. W. Fairbrass, of Canterbury. It stood 

 first in a class of fifteen at the Crystal Palace Show at 

 Sydenham (1875), the majority of which had been successful 

 competitors at other shows. He won with the mast con- 

 summate ease, being vastly superior in all respects to any 

 of his antagonists, and a thorough champion all over, his 

 colour, cap, contour, and spangling being exquisitely grand, 

 and almost perfect; the greatest fault observable was that 

 he was rather too much striped down the sides of the abdomen. 

 Mr. Fairbrass is probably one of the oldest and most ex- 

 tensive breeders of this greatly admired variety of canaries 

 living, and a pretty successful exhibitor as well. Several 

 prize winners in previous years have been bred from birds 

 procured from his aviary by other fanciers. One of the most 

 successful breeders and exhibitors of these birds is Mr. Robert 

 Ritchie, of Darlington. 



