Cj!oss with the Yorkshire. 



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put in from the cock*s side, nor has our own practice or observation enabled us to afford any 

 reliable statistical information as to the preponderance of Marked birds, or otherwise, which may be 

 expected from either method of pairing. The object is to use the best-marked birds which can be 

 got, irrespective of sex, coupling them in every case with the best Clear Norwich types at command. 

 The shape will be the point most affected at first, the Yorkshire being a long, erect Canary, inclined 

 to be slim and taper in form, as opposed to the chubby Norwich bird ; and this has to be counteracted 



ORNITHOLOGICAL REGIONS OF THE BODY OF A SMALL BIRD. 



. Upper Mandible. 



. Lower Mandible, 



. Nostrils. 



. Ridge, or Culmen. 



. Commissure, or cutting edges of 



the Mandibles. 

 . Apex, or point of the Beak. 

 . The Chin. 

 . Upper Throat. 

 I. Keel, or Gonys, 

 1. ^ Coloured Bands, usually called 

 . i Bridles and Stripes. 



, The Forehead. 



The Gape, or Rictus. 



Space around the Eye. 



Lower Throat. 

 , Superciliary Region. 

 , Crown, Summit, or Vertex. 

 , Hind Head, or Occipital Re- 



The Nape, or Nucha. 



The Ear, or Ear-feathers. 

 , The Throat. 

 , The Breast. 



23. The Neck above, or 



24. The Back, or Mantle. 



25. Scapular Wing-covers, 



26. Lower Back, or Tergum. 



27. The Shoulder. 



28. Body, or Lower Bieast. 



29. The Belly. 



30. The Vent. 



31. The Tail-feathers. 



32. The Under Tail covers. 



33. Spurious Quills. 



Upper 



34. Secondary Quills, or Second- 



s, or Primaries. 

 Margin. 



35. Primary Q 



36. The Shoulc 



37. Wing-cove: 



38. Under -surface or Und 



of the Body. 

 39- The Tarsus, or Leg. 



40. The Front Toes. 



41. The Hinder Toe, 01 



lux. 



42. Upper Tail-covers, 



by judicious selection and pairing of the offspring, never forgetting that whatever else has to be 

 relinquished for a time, exact marking is what is wanted and must be maintained at all hazards. 

 Colour, also, will pale, but as the rich hue of the Norwich will accompany each step in its return 

 to its normal shape, this property may be left to assert itself by its own native potency. We 



