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Canary Breeding 
distinct as that of the orange-coloured variety. Breeders, seeing that it stood no 
chance on the show bench, refused to breed with it, and consequently, in a few 
years, the strain died out. 
" About the same time, there was another strain known as the flat or hollow- 
backed Lizard. This was a class of bird with a back full of large, distinct 
spangling, or moons as we called them. The moons were distributed all over the 
back, and not in straight, regular rows as you see them in the Lizards of to-day. 
This class of bird had very often a split or parting down the centre of the back, and 
as it very rarely got into the money at any show, gradually became scarce, until it 
has almost met with the same fate as the lemon jonque. I should never pair two 
golds or two silvers together without a special reason* 
" I remember experimenting in this direction many years ago. I paired a gold 
cock with a gold hen, and succeeded in breeding some decent young from the pair. 
Then I inbred with two of the young ones, also both golds. The result was the 
feathers on the young birds bred from the inbred pair, instead of lying close to 
the body, grew the wrong way about ; they turned up over the back just like those 
on a Frizzle Fowl, which convinced me that you can go too far in that direction " 
(cf. fig. 1). 
In Classes 16 — 20, the original cinnamon displays similar variations to those 
in previous classes. 
Class 21 is specially interesting to us, as the only white canary ever seen by 
British fanciers was exhibited at the last Crystal Palace show, and is undoubtedly 
of cinnamon descent (Plate I, fig. 4). 
In 22 — 26, we have the start of our present day variegated varieties (cf. figs. 
2 and 3). 
Class 27 is interesting as indicating what I call a cinnamon-gi'een variegation, 
for these birds, the produce of a cinnamon cock with a dark-eyed hen, are all 
males and undoubtedly show more pinkness of the eye than other green -variegated 
birds. They also frequently show a tendency to the dark-green — almost black — 
London Fancy markings. 
In Class 28, we have the start of the London Fancy — now almost extinct — and 
its occurrence immediately after Class 27 may be of some assistance in re- 
establishing this beautiful variety (Plate IV, fig. 2). 
In Class 29, we have the appearance, of which I have had experience, of a rich 
orange-yellow bird. The special quality of rich colour which characterizes the 
Norwich canary has probably its origin here. 
Class 30, mentioned by Buffon as being in Hervieux's list, whether there or not, 
at all events shows that crest was known about 1750. 
In our cinnamon muling experiments we have shown that position is correlated 
with cinnamon sporting and frills. 
* "Gold " is the yeUow variety of Lizard, and " silver " the buff. 
