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Our  Canaries 
marks  and  one  eye  mark,  or  two  tail  marks,  two  eye  marks  and  one  wing  mark. 
Two-pointed  and  four-pointed  birds  may  also  be  uneven-marked  by  having  an  eye 
and  wing  mark,  an  eye  and  tail  mark,  or  a  wing  and  tail  mark  for  a  two-pointed 
bird,  whilst  a  four-pointed  one  may  have  two  eye  marks,  one  wing  and  one  tail 
mark,  or  two  wing  marks,  one  eye  and  one  tail  mark,  or  two  tail  marks,  and  one 
wing  and  one  eye  mark.  All  this  may  appear  confusing,  but  it  becomes  clear 
when  one  remembers  that  an  even-marked  bird  must  have  both  sides  of  its  body 
to  correspond  in  markings,  whereas  an  uneven-marked,  though  it  may  be  marked 
on  both  sides  of  its  body,  does  not  correspond  on  both  sides,  some  one  or  more 
technical  point  being  marked  on  one  side  and  not  on  the  other. 
HOW    TO    BREED  THEM. 
The  making  of  a  rehable  strain  for  breeding  even-marks  is  a  matter  of  years 
of  patient  toil  and  careful  pedigree  breeding.  Even  so,  it  is  doubtful  if  any  royal 
road  to  success  exists.  Uneven-marks,  ticked,  variegated,  and  clears  predominate, 
but  very  frequently  these  bye-products,  as  they  may  be  termed,  are  invaluable 
stock  birds,  and  often  of  high  merit,  so  that  in  breeding  for  even-marks  one 
is  usually  producing  birds  suitable  for  competition  in  several  different  classes. 
Mr.  |.  W,  Bruce,  of  Coldstream,  says:  "  In  breeding  for  even-marks  I  prefer 
two  eye-marked  birds,  or  a  variegated  bred  from  even-marks  and  a  clear  bred  from 
a  green,  as  a  pair.  But  I  have  bred  some  nice  marks  (one  a  noted  winner)  from 
no  pedigree  strain — a  case  of  pure  chance — and  many  more  have  been  bred  the 
same  way  to  my  knowledge." 
Mr.  G.  Meekley,  of  Carlisle,  writes  :  "  I  have  generally  had  the  best  results 
from  variegated  birds  on  both  sides.  My  well-known  even-marked  yellow's 
mother  was  an  85  per  cent,  variegated  buff,  aud  the  father  a  three-pointed  yellow — 
eyes  and  wing  marked.  You  certainly  get  a  good  number  of  heavily  marked  birds 
in  pairing  this  way,  but  you  stand  a  chance  of  breeding  a  typical  uneven-marked 
bird.  I  never  hesitate  in  pairing  my  birds  this  way  provided  they  possess  the 
essential  points  which  make  a  typical  Border." 
THE  CINNAMON  BORDER  FANCY. 
The  introduction  of  the  cinnamon  colour  into  the  Border  Fancy  has  in 
recent  years  added  immense  interest  to  the  breed,  and  the  cinnamon  and 
cinnamon-marked  Borders  have  made  rapid  strides.  One  of  the  most  success- 
ful breeders,  Mr.  Dan  Hamilton,  of  Hamilton,  N.B.,  says :— "  It  was  in  the 
year  1905  that  I  first  tried  for  the  cinnamon  Border.  There  were  a  few 
cinnamon  hens  on  the  show  bench  at  that  time.  I  expect  they  were  sports 
from  the  green  as  they  were  shown  by  green  breeders.  They  were  all  pale  in 
colour  compared  with  cinnamon  hens  on  the  show  bench  to-day.  I  don't 
remember  a  cinnamon  cock  being  shown  that  year,  though  one  at  least  was 
shown  the  year  following.    It  occurred  to  me  that  by  careful  mating  with 
