CAGE AND SINGING BIRDS. 
or unmixed with blacky oth; with white tail. 9; 10, 11^ 
YeUo7V .'ternary ^finches — 1st, common ; 2ncl, having no ad- 
mixture of black in the yellow down 5 3rd, with a white 
tail. 12; 13, 14, 15, Agate-coloured canary finches — 1st, 
common; 2nd, with red eyes; 3rd, with white tail; 4th^ 
with the down of the same colour. 16, 17, 18, 19, Yellow* 
dun canary finches — 1st, common ; 2nd, with red eyes ; 3rd^ 
glossed with gold ; 4th, down of the same colour. 20, 21, 
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Variegated, or spangled canary jinches 
— 1st, common; 2nd, with red eyes; 3rd, of a fair, or flaxen 
colour; 4th, the same, having red eyes; 5th, variegated 
with black ; 6th, with black and yellow, red eyes ; 7th, regu- 
larly spangled with black and yellow. 27, White canary 
^finchy with red eyes. 28, Pure yello7v canary Jinch, colour 
unmixed. 29, Crested canary Jinch, with crest of gray, 
j^ellow, or black, and plumage various; perhaps the most 
Ijeautiful of these is a fine jonque cocli, with a full black crest. 
In many of the above varieties, the gray and yellow birds 
especially, the tints frequently run off into green, and in- 
cline more or less to black and brown. The agate, or cin- 
namon brown, are generally uniform in colour; but the^ 
cream-coloured or flaxen are more so, and the yellow sort 
more constant both in the same and different individuals. 
In the variegated or spangled varieties, those of the jonquil 
colour are most usually marked with black, and have a dash 
of black about the head. There is a very beautiful variety 
called the lizzard canary, which is of a greenish bronze 
throughout, excepting the upper part of the head, which is 
covered with a patch of clear yellow ; the markings, or 
spangles, on the back are perfectly uniform and regular. 
This is considered by some to approach nearest to the 
original stock. The unsophisticated produce of nature 
being," as a writer on prize canaries, in the Illustrated 
NervSy remarks, precise and geometrical." 
None of the varieties here mentioned are what are called 
Mule Birds, although it is likely that some of them may 
have been produced by an intermixture of breeds, probably 
spontaneous, with the serin and citril finches, which are 
nearly allied to the canary, and are sometimes confounded 
with it. To the produce of a union of these species the 
term mule will not apply, as they are well known to be 
