THE "CRESTED NORWICH." 



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single male, according to its beauty. The Norwich species, 

 in its original form, before being fed with Cayenne-pepper, 

 i.e., the clear, yellow, natural Norwich, has been, for a long 

 time, a great favourite in England. Its price is even some- 

 what higher than that of the redder-toned coloured one, 

 and great care is bestowed upon its breeding • no matter 

 whether they be uniformly yellow or marked in various 

 shades, crested or not, it is always carried out according to 

 the principles of " thorough "-breeding ; and it is only when 

 the breed has been kept pure through several generations, 

 when the birds have, to use a technical term, " colour in 

 the blood," that a valuable after-breed can be obtained ; the 

 same will be the case as regards the breeding of pepper- 

 coloured birds. 



The " Clear Yellow Norwich " bird is of a uniform 

 dark orange colour, almost " postal" red, and its appearance is 

 so singular that we can easily understand why the " fancy " 

 has, in Germany, almost exclusively patronised it. The price 

 is the same as stated before. 



The " Clear-buff Norwich " resembles the former, only that 

 the colour is perceptibly brighter, and that the plumage has a 

 whitish reflex. This bird is also very pretty, but it is very 

 little appreciated by German amateurs ; the price is identical 

 with the former. The " evenly-marked, buff Norwich " is 

 of a clear orange colour, with perfectly even marks, a fine 

 black-brown streak across, above and below the eye, ex- 

 tending from the nostril to the cheek, and a similar and 

 very symmetrical marking of the wings ; the great wing- 

 feathers are of a pure white, delicately edged with yellow, 

 while the middle and the small wings are a blackish brown. 

 These, and similar, as it were, carefully marked birds 

 naturally are met with in numerous varieties. 



The " Crested Norwich " are no less frequently bred • 

 these are partly dark or clear yellow, which is their natural 



