The Yorkshire 
Canary. 
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are able to appreciate its beautiful mark¬ 
ings and splendid shape along with fine 
quality of feather. Classes for Cinna¬ 
mon Marked Yorkshires were first pro¬ 
vided at the Crystal Palace Company’s 
30th Annual Exhibition, held Feb¬ 
ruary 11 to 15, 1893, through the in¬ 
fluence of the Yorkshire Union. Pre¬ 
viously one class was provided for Varie¬ 
gated Cinnamons, any variety. 
Yorkshire Greens in the Making. 
The Green Yorkshire of twenty years 
ago, was, to my mind, quite as hand¬ 
some and as pure and rich in colour 
as the bulk of the present day birds, the 
Yellow Green's brilliant and lustrous 
colour not being mixed at that time so 
frequently with Cinnamon blood as it 
has been since. The crossing of the 
pure Green Canary with self or Cinnamon 
variegated birds, which was practised 
rather extensively some twelve or fourteen 
years ago, is, in my judgment, a decide 1 
mistake, and without doubt this injured 
the Green Canary so far as purity of 
colour was concerned. It is a fact that 
the crossing of Green with Cinnamon or 
Cinnamon with Green, so far as my 
own practical experience has gone, has 
in most cases, resulted in a loss as re¬ 
gards soundness and purity of colour 
in seifs as well as in the markings of 
Green or Cinnamon marked birds. The 
Greens are dull and smutty in colour, 
especially in the Buffs, and the Cinna¬ 
mons from the same cross are “ brassy ” 
in Yellows and dirty-looking drab in the 
Buffs. This has been my experience, and 
I have known others who have experi¬ 
enced at same results. Take the Green 
Marked Yorkshire, many of these have a 
considerable amount of Cinnamon blood 
in their veins, and the markings in many 
cases are of a grey cast, some being be¬ 
tween a shade of Green and Cinnamon. 
The same remarks in some instances 
will apply to the Cinnamon Marks 
Some of these by having been crossed 
with Green Marked birds (in an en¬ 
deavour in most cases to improve their 
type) are nearly what may be termed 
half-green and half-cinnamon in their 
markings. These points will, in the 
near future, have to be considered, and 
i f some who may doubt the above state¬ 
ments will observe the difference in the 
colour of a good many of our self- 
coloured Cinnamons and Greens and 
the markings on Green and Cinna¬ 
mon Marked Yorkshires, it may be the 
means of convincing them that there" are 
some grounds for the statement that 
seldom does the crossing of Cinnamon 
and Green improve the colour of either, 
but in the majority of instances is the 
means of injuring that colour. Another 
thing that may have done something to¬ 
wards spoiling a goodly number of 
Greens is the class for pied and broken 
Greens. 
Foul Greens on the Show Bench. 
Much may be said by the breeders in 
favour of these classes as being an outlet 
for birds that are not perfect as self- 
coloured birds, and this may be, and no 
doubt is, the reason which causes some 
to stick to the variety when otherwise 
they might drop it for some other variety, 
or perhaps leave the Fancy altogether. 
But these classes may also have a 
tendency to cause breeders to be more 
careless in their mating, and instead of 
their sole aim being to breed sound, self- 
coloured Green birds, which should be 
the ambition of all Green breeders, they, 
instead of discarding birds with white 
feathers in wings and tail and those with 
light throats and vents, in too many in¬ 
stances keep and breed with them know¬ 
ing that there is the chance of exhibiting 
them in these broken and pied classes, 
and though I can hardly expect these 
classes will be dispensed with, it is, only 
right to say that more encouragement 
might be given to the self-coloured or 
Green bird proper, and less to what can 
only be considered as wasters, the same 
as pied or broken Cinnamons. I never 
believe in offering any inducement to 
breed something we do not want, and 
the man who sets out to breed Green 
Yorkshires should not want to breed any¬ 
thing but self-coloured birds. In spite 
of these drawbacks which may, perhaps, 
be only imaginary on my part, the Green 
Yorkshire has made great progress as a 
Yorkshire, and is much better understood 
and far more popular than formerly, and 
