Correspondence on Breeding Lutinos



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I hope I have made it clear that if all your yellow Alexandrines

have red eyes, then you have no reason to believe that, you have the

yellow factor in any of them, and have no reason to expect to be able

to produce the yellow factor in them, and no reason to expect to be

able to produce normal whites by mating your red-eyed yellows (albino

greens) with blues or green split blues.


On the other hand you have every reason to expect to produce

white albinos, for all you have to do is to get your full albino factor

and your full blue factor together in the one bird. As these factors

are both hereditarily transmissible without in any way interfering one

with the other, you should not have any great difficulty.


I would be pleased to know whether I am correct in assuming that

you have no yellow Alexandrines with normal eyes, and would be

grateful for any information regarding the results you obtain.


I think it is yet too early to shout “ Halloo ” in regard to the

yellow-winged blues in Australia. I have seen (and produced) so-called

yellow-winged greens with body colour largely powder blue colour,

but always the blue in the juvenile plumage has been replaced in

the adult plumage by a rich green, and it may yet be so in the case

of Anderson’s yellow-winged blues that have been so widely advertised

all over the world. Of course, it would be a beautiful combination

of colours if retained as described. But I must warn you that yellow-

wings in Australia does not indicate yellow wings but wings like

those of a yellow, usually heavily marked.


Hoping you will have complete success in establishing both the

white and the yellow albinos in Alexandrines.


Yours sincerely,


S. E. Terrill.


19 Weller Street,


Goodwood Park.


South Australia.


17th ¥ 'irch, 1936.



