Volume VII 
JULY AND OCTOBER, 1909 Nos. 1 and 2 
BIOMETRIKA. 
CANAEY BREEDING. A PAETIAL ANALYSIS OF 
RECORDS FROM 1891-1909. 
By a. RUDOLF GALLOWAY, M.B., CM., M.A., Aberdeen. 
CONTENTS. 
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I. Introductory and Historical 1 
II. Canary Hybrids 4 
III. Importance of Cinnamon Inheritance, Pink Eyes, Wild Cinnamon Sports, 
Cinnamon Hybrids, Wild White Sports, and White Hybrids ... 5 
IV. The Cinnamon Canary as the Foundation of Canary Varieties, Pink Eye in 
Canaries 9 
V. Historical Evolution of Canary : Hervieux, Albin, Blagrovc . . . . 11 
VI. Comparative Evolution of other Domesticated Species 18 
VII. Canary Breeding. Crests and Crest-bred Plainheads. Double Cresting. Plumage 
Colour in Crested Variety. Inheritance of Yellow and Buff qualities in 
Crested Variety and iluling Strains 21 
Appendix of Matings 33 
Description of Plates 41 
I. Introductory and Historical. 
From the commencement of my canary and hybrid breeding experiments in 
1891, it has been my custom to make notes of the different matings and their 
results. These refer mostly to fancy points for shov^r purposes, but at the same 
time include questions of colour and quality of plumage, of sex, of eye colour, of 
cinnamon inheritance, and other subjects which have much scientific importance at 
the present time. 
Inheritance in Canaries. The appearance of an interesting set of canary and 
hybrid breeding experiments entitled " Inheritance in Canaries " by Charles B. 
Davenport, and published by the Carnegie Institute of Washington in 1908, has 
induced me to look over and summarize my records, in order to see how far they 
agree with the conclusions stated in that paper. Before giving my own results 
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