i6o CANARIES 



never be overlooked. It is one that cannot be broken 

 without disastrous results following. 



Years ago when classes used to be provided at all the 

 best shows for evenly marked Yorkshires, a great deal 

 of faking used to go on. When the classes were abolished 

 many thought we should lose all our beautiful marked 

 birds. But we have not. The result has been that to-day 

 we have far more well-marked birds than ever we had, 

 and in addition they are typical specimens, because, 

 as I have said, the Yorkshire Union insists that type 

 shall be considered first, whereas in the old days the 

 markings were more than half the bird, and it was quite 

 possible to see two birds standing first and second in 

 a class, one little removed from a Border Fancy and 

 the other almost a Lancashire, but the marking brought 

 them together. The present classification gives no undue 

 weight to marking, and as a consequence we have far 

 more beautiful birds shown in all the marked or variegated 

 classes. 



The Fascinating Cinnamon Marks. 



Years ago, when marking was the Alpha and Omega 

 of the Cinnamon-marked fancy, we had far more well- 

 marked Cinnamon-marked birds than green-marked, 

 but, beyond the lovely quality of feather always associated 

 with the Cinnamon blood and the beauty of their marking, 

 there was little to commend them. In those days there 

 was little true Yorkshire character about the Cinnamon- 

 marked birds, but the Yorkshire Union standard altered 

 that state of things, and the Cinnamon-marked birds, 

 which were then a race practically by themselves, have 

 now been so interbred with the dark-eyed Yorkshires to 

 secure type that both sides of the family have benefited. 

 So mixed, however, have the birds become that there 

 is scarcely a Yorkshire breeder anywhere but who has 

 pink-eyed birds in his room, even if he has no Cinnamon- 

 marked birds. As a consequence. Cinnamon-marked 

 birds now make their appearance in studs where they are 

 not specially bred for as they were in the olden days. 

 Good breeding stock was then hard to find. Not so now 

 when there are plenty of stock birds to be found for the 

 breeding of Cinnamon-marked Yorkshires, and a large 



