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tion carefully noted." We know not how these gentle- 

 men would classify them, or what difference is sufficient, 

 in their estimation, to constitute a distinct variety. 

 Many, we imagine, would be but slight modifications of 

 the same general colour, and could scarcely be anything 

 more than slight and fanciful variations at the most. 

 For our own part, we think the following will include 

 most of those which have any claim to be considered a 

 distinct variety, and even these will be found in breed- 

 ing to produce birds quite different in colour to them- 

 selves, so that the variety spoken of is rather to be 

 understood as an accidental circumstance belonging 

 only to the individual bird, than as referring to any 

 difference in the breed to which it may thus chance 

 to belong. Setting aside the wild canary, we have 

 the well-defined lizards, the Yorkshire spangles, the 

 Norwich golden yellows, the London orange, with 

 black wings and tail, the green, the cinnamon or fawn, 

 the buff or pale yellow, the pure white, the orange 

 Belgian, and the German, and under one or other of 

 these heads all the rest may be ranged. As we have 

 specimens of all these varieties in our own aviary, we 

 shall say a few words upon each, and Judy will give 

 accurate portraits of the birds, which together we hope 

 may prove both instructive and interesting to all who 

 may honour our pages with a perusal. 



Curiously enough, the first bird that we purchased 

 was, perhaps, the most rare, as certainly it is the most 

 distinct variety, viz., the Lizard, so called from some 

 fancied resemblance in its markings to the reptile of 

 that name. The coloured representations on the oppo- 



