CHAPTER XX 



LESSER KNOWN CANARIES. 



At various times during the last twenty years White 

 canaries have been shown, but they have not secured the 

 approbation of the fancy, and have remained in few 

 hands. 



In Wales an attempt is being made to establish a breed 

 named after the Principality, but thus far not much 

 progress has been made. 



A few enterprising breeders are seeking to secure the 

 approval of the fancy to the production of Dwarf or 

 Pigmy breeds, aud at the National Show at Bradford in 

 December, 1922, a class was provided for Pigmy York- 

 shires not exceeding 5| inches in length. 



When in Canada in the summer of 1922 I found that the 

 breeders of British Columbia were engaged upon the 

 production of two miniatures, one following the Norwich 

 in type, and the other the Yorkshire, and quite a large 

 number of the two breeds were shown at a show, which I 

 judged, and which was held in connection with the 

 Vancouver Exhibition and Fair. The birds of Yorkshire 

 type were then being called British Columbia Fancy, and 

 those of Norwich type British Columbia songsters, 

 they having been evolved from the ordinary small com- 

 mon singing canary. These were the most popular, one of 

 the classes containing no less than twenty-three exhibits. 



I was much interested in these midgets, and I see no 

 reason why canary breeders should not have distinctive 

 dwarf breeds as have poultry breeders. There is a big 

 field here for experimental breeding. 



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