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To understand the list, we must also recollect, as I have shown in my experi- 
ments with wild cinnamon sports, that self-cinnamon is a varying colour, and 
frequently changes in the same bird through various shades of pale cinnamon to a 
creamy white, often with a gloss of yellow on the surface (blond dore) (Plate II, fig. 3). 
We must also remember that the colour grey is like cinnamon, one of the pallid 
variations which occur in nature, e.g. grey greenfinch, a very beautiful example of 
which, a female, was shown at the Scottish National Show 1909, and is the 
property of Mr J. W. Bruce, Coldstream. This bird is said to be three years old, and 
not to have changed its colour — but it is quite likely that other examples might 
grow paler just as the cinnamon type does — for present day grey and grizzle crests 
invariably moult lighter each year until ultimately they become clear*. 
The mottled or spangled type of variation (Plate IV, fig. 3) (in my opinion, 
closely allied to cinnamon), also appears in the agate varieties. 
Having considered these preliminary points, we are now in a position to 
interpret the list itself: — 
Noms que Ton donne aux Serins, selon leurs dififerentes couleurs. 
Je croy qu'il est apropos de marquer ici les noms que Ton donne commune- 
ment aux serins, selon leurs differentes couleurs ; afin que Ton sgache en quelle 
classe, ou plutot en quel degre de beaute sont les serins que Ton a, ou ceux que 
Ton souhaite avoir ; pour cet effet je me suis propose de les nommer par ordre, en 
commen^ant par les plus communs, et finissant par les plus rares. 
1. Serin Gris commun. 
The ordinary grey canary. 
2. Serin Gris aux duvetsf et aux pattes blanches, qu'on appelle Race de 
Panachez. 
Slightly variegated frilled canary with white feet. 
3. Serin Gris a queue blanche, race de Panachez. 
Slightly variegated frilled canary with white tail. 
4. Serin Blond commun. 
The ordinary pale canary. 
5. Serin Blond aux yeux rouges. 
The pale canary with pink eyes. 
* By the kindness of Mr Alex. Cochrane, Edinburgh, I now possess a silver-grey linnet {L. Cannahina) 
— also of female sex. 
t "Duvets " means the light feathers which adorn the under surface of the body of birds, and 
may be translated downy or frilled — for it is this part of the bird that first shows the tendency to excess 
of feather seen in Dutch Frills. Hervieux's explanation of "le duvet" at page 271 may be translated as 
follows: — "which shows itself, wlien taking your canary in your hand, you find on it, on blowing 
it under the body and stomach, a little white down (un petit duvet blanc) and in consequence of 
a different colour from the natural plumage." 
He also adds : — " There are some canaries which have much more of this down than others. This 
is what one finds with the Fanciers, one they call Serins au petit duvet, that is to say, those which 
show a little ; and the others they call Serins au grand duvet, that is to say, those which have much : 
this down does not appear usually till near the moult." 
