A. R. Galloway 
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26. Serin Panache de noir*. 
Green- variegated canary (e.g. figs. 2 and 3). 
27. Serin Panache de noir-jonquille, aux yeux rouges. 
Cinnamon-green variegated canary with pink eyes. 
28. Serin Panache de noir-jonquille et regulier. 
The London Fancy canary (Plate IV, fig. 2). 
29. Serin Plein, qui sont a present les plus rares. 
Clear orange-yellow canary, which is, at present, the rarest. 
[SOf. The crest canary (or rather the crowned) which is one of the most 
beautiful (Buffon).] 
The study of this most instructive list which begins with the commonest and 
ends with the rarest, combined with a knowledge of the nature and behaviour of 
sports in wild birds generally, proves distinctly the "sport" origin of all the 
varieties of the canary. 
In classes 1 — 8 we have the grey canary vaiying in the direction of frilled and 
white feathers, and white feet. 
In 4 — 8, the pale type (either of grey or cinnamon) shows the same variations, 
but in addition a more marked tendency to albinism (pink eye), and towards the 
differentiation between " yellow " and " buff." 
In 9 — 11, the uniformly lemon-yellow canary shows similar plumage variations. 
In 12 — 15, the original Lizard proclaims its cinnamon descent by having pink 
eyes, besides the plumage changes like the others. 
In Canary and Gage-Bird Life for April 16, 1909, Mr L. Buttervvorth's lecture 
to the Rochdale Ornithological Club on " The Lizard Canary Fancy Past and 
Present" is given (Plate IV, fig. 3). In it, this lemon-yellow variation with its 
tendency to become paler is described in connection with the Lizard canary of 
forty years ago. At the same time the " duvet " or frilled variety appeared. As 
these statements from an experienced and observant fancier are important 
historically, I give them in full, premising that this lemon-yellow colour in mules 
is well known to be due to cinnamon inheritance. 
" When I first started to breed the Lizard canary there was a strain of Lizards 
which were very plentiful in and around Rochdale known as the lemon Lizard, or 
lemon jonque, on account of the cap being a pale yellow colour somewhat the 
colour of a lemon. In its nest feathers it had a back full of straight, narrow 
rowing, but after its first moult the colour of its cap and the tips of the small 
feathers were of the same pale yellow colour, the spangle being not nearly so 
* Noir — Such quills and tail feathers are mostly black or smoky when spread out ; but when in 
position show their yellowish-green edging mainly. 
t In the 1793 London edition of Buffon's Natural History, Class 30 is included in Hervieux's 1713 
list of varieties, where I have been unable to find it. 
All the varieties except 29 and 30 are mentioned in the 1709 and 1711 editions of Hervieux. 
