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Our  Canaries 
I  will  give  a  few  further  examples.  It  is  very  easy  to  show  that  a  Cinnamon- 
coloured  bird  may  really  possess  very  little  Cinnamon  blood,  while  one  that  is 
Green  in  colour  of  plumage  may  be  cramful  of  it.  I  have  shown  that  a  Cinnamon 
cock  paired  to  a  non-Cinnamon  hen  throws  Green  sons,  and  the  youngster  would 
be  half-bred  Cinnamon,  containing  at  most  50  per  cent,  of  Cinnamon  blood.  You 
may  pair  him  again  with  a  non-Cinnamon  hen,  and  still  get  Cinnamon  daughters 
for  many  generations,  until,  to  my  knowledge,  they  can  be  produced  of  a  Self 
Cinnamon  colour  down  to  the  fifth  year,  when  they  would  contain  only  i-32nd 
part  of  real  Cinnamon  blood,  or  about  three  per  cent.,  so  that  the  knowledge  of  a 
Cinnamon  hen's  pedigree  is  of  the  highest  importance,  for  such  a  Cinnamon  hen 
with  only  about  three  per  cent,  of  real  Cinnamon  blood  is  apt  to  throw  too  many 
Green  youngsters,  even  when  paired  to  a  Cinnamon  cock." 
COLOUR  HIS  ESCUTCHEON. 
"  With  a  Cinnamon  cock  the  matter  of  pedigree  presents  no  such  difficulties, 
for  a  cock  bears  evidence  of  its  own  pedigree  in  the  mere  fact  of  its  Cinnamon 
colour,  because  you  cannot  produce  such  a  bird  except  with  a  good  percentage  of 
genuine  Cinnamon  blood.  It  has  been  said  that  all  the  daughters  of  a 
Cinnamon  cock  and  a  non-Cinnamon  hen,  are  cinnamon-coloured  ;  but  this  is  an 
error,  for  some  are  dark-eyed  and  green-marked,  although  it  is  quite  true  to  say 
'  all  the  Cinnamons  will  prove  to  be  hens.'  " 
THE  CINNAMON-BRED  GREENS. 
*•  Now,  if  you  take  one  of  these  Green  or  Green-marked  hens  containing  50 
per  cent,  of  Cinnamon  blood,  and  pair  it  to  a  Cinnamon  cock,  the  progeny  would 
contain  three-fourths  or  75  per  cent,  of  Cinnamon  blood,  yet  some  of  the  sons  and 
daughters  might  be  green  ;  so  here  you  have  a  green  bird  three-fourths  full  of  Cinna- 
mon blood,  while  just  now  I  showed  you  the  pedigree  of  a  Cinnamon  hen  with  only 
three  per  cent.  You  may  pair  a  Cinnamon  cock  to  one  of  the  low  percentaged 
Cinnamon  hens,  and  from  the  two  Cinnamon  parents  obtain  Green  sons  and 
daughters,  and  so  get  Green  birds  that  must,  according  to  all  appearances  at 
least,  be  quite  full  of  Cinnamon  blood,  containing,  in  fact,  100  per  cent,  of  it.  It 
is  from  such  Green  cocks  as  here  described  that  when  paired  to  Cinnamon  hens 
you  may  breed  Cinnamon  and  Green  sons  and  daughters,  although  this  has  not 
been  the  experience  of  some  breeders.  These  Green  cocks  that  come  from  two 
Cinnamons  are  extremely  valuable,  being  full  of  colour  and  useful  for  increasing 
the  depth  of  real  Cinnamon  colour  in  some  strains  that  seem  only  able  to  obtain 
size  at  the  expense  of  colour,  that  is,  as  soon  as  they  throw  a  big  bird  it  is  washy 
and  pale  in  tone.  It  is  very  much  a  matter  of  pedigree  and  selection,  and  as  we 
want  to  breed  Cinnamons  we  must,  as  a  rule,  select  those  birds  showing  the  colour 
we  want.  Such  Green  birds  would  throw  Cinnamons  the  next  generation  if 
paired  to  Cinnamon  mates  that  had  been  bred  pure  for  at  least  two  generations." 
