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of Cinnamon-marks than risk taking it from a dark-eyed 

 strain of Yorkshires. 



The Self-Greens. 



Years ago the Greens were a race quite by themselves, 

 and were seldom seen outside the city of Liverpool and 

 its suburbs. In type they were nondescripts, approaching 

 the Lancashire in length and feather, though not in size. 

 Colour and colour only seemed to be the one point of 

 importance, and most beautiful the colour was — a rich, 

 grassy green with no bronze or grey tinge. 



About thirty years ago the Green Club was formed, 

 and it was decided to bring the bird up to the Yorkshire 

 standard so far as type was concerned. I had much to 

 do with the formation of the Club, and drew the standard 

 by which the modern Greens have for the last generation 

 been judged and bred to. 



For a long time some of the oldest breeders would have 

 nothing to do with the Club, but it made great headway, 

 not only in Lancashire, but in Cheshire and Yorkshire. 

 In a little while the Club extended its field of operations, 

 and took up the cultivation of Norwich-type Greens. 

 It made good progress up to the time of the Great War, 

 but since then it has not displayed much energy, and, as 

 the Yorkshire, Norwich, and Border Clubs have all paid 

 some attention to the Green, I have concluded that so 

 far as this work is concerned the Greens must be included 

 with the breeds according to type, as one can hardly 

 speak of the Green Canary when we have Yorkshire, 

 Norwich and Border Greens. 



What followed the Cinnamon Blood. 



To improve the type, the pioneers of the Green Canary 

 Club decided that they must cross the old Liverpool 

 Greens with birds of the Yorkshire family, and that the 

 best way to do it, so as not to have too many variegated 

 birds, would be to use the Cinnamon-marked Yorkshires. 

 This certainly gave type, and it avoided the excess of 

 broken-coloured birds which would probably have resulted 



