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Canaries and Cage-Birds. 



SCALES OF POINTS FOR JUDGING CINNAMON CANARIES. 



CLEAR YELLOW. 

 Points of Merit. 



Colour — Depth and purity 



Richness and warmth of tone ... 

 Transparent brilliancy 



Distribution uniform ; back level and free from 

 dark stripes 



Feather — Body-feather: for compactness 

 Wings : for compactness and carriage ... 

 Tail : for ditto 



Shape — Head and neck: for neatness 



Back: for width 



Breast: for fulness 



Size 

 condition- 



-Health and clean sound feather 

 Total 



Maximum. 



30 



S 



5 



— 45 

 10 



5 

 5 



— 20 

 5 



5 

 5 



— 15 



Negative Coloin Properties. 

 A Clear Jonque Cinnamon should not show any tinge of 

 green, nor be dull and rusty or semi-opaque, nor should it 

 be patchy in colour or show dark stripes on the back or saddle, 

 nor should there ever be any doubt as to the soundness of 

 the cinnamon colour throughout, or any suspicion of a break. 



CLEAR BUFF. 



The Feather, Shape, Size, and Condition points admit of no appreciable alteration, unless it be 

 that instead of giving points for " neatness " of head and neck, they may be placed to the credit of 

 " width of skull " combined with neatness and finish, the bird being altogether more massive than 

 the Jonque, and looking very mean when the skull is narrow. The Colour points, however, require 

 some modification, as the mealy character of buff feather is not, in a Cinnamon, so intimately 

 associated with the idea of richness or warmth of tone or transparent brilliancy, as with the notion 

 of a regular distribution of colour as opposed to simply a dark skull, a mealy neck, and a breast 

 showing fair colour only in front, but paling as it recedes towards the under region. We therefore 

 submit the following : — 



Points of Merit. 



Colour — Depth and purity 



Distribution : uniform on head, neck, and breast 

 Back : level and free from stripes 



Feather — Body-feather : for compactness 

 Wings: for compactness and carriage ... 

 Tail: for ditto 



Shape — Head: for width of skull and neatness ... 



Back: for width 



Breast: for fulness 



Size 



Condition — Health and clean sound feather 



Total 



Maximum. 

 30 



— 45 

 10 



5 

 5 



— 20 

 5 



5 

 5 



Negative Properties, 

 A Clear Buff Cinnamon should not show any shade of green, 

 nor have the expanse of colour on neck and breast hidden by 

 meal, nor have dark stripes on the back. It should not be 

 coarse in feather, nor have a slovenly carriage of wings or 

 tail, nor have a narrow skull. 



VARIEGATED CINNAMONS. 



Here the assessments correspond exactly with those in the Norwich scales, due regard being 

 had to the depth of the cinnamon colour in the Evenly-marked class, as well as to the purity of 

 the clear body-colour. This applies especially to the irregularly-picd birds, in which the 45 



