Excerpt from Inheritance in Canaries
The history of the canary in captivity is given as follows:* It occurs as a wild species in the Canary and the Madeira Islands. The wild species agrees in coloration so completely with the captive Hgreen canary with greenish-yellow breast and without. White on remiges and rectrices that only a person with precise and thorough knowledge of both can find any certain distinguishing characteristic. After the Spaniards took possession Of the Canary Islands in 1478 they brought many Of the products of the islands home, and among others these remarkable songsters; but for a long time they were rare in Europe.
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Excerpt from Inheritance in Canaries
The history of the canary in captivity is given as follows:* It occurs as a wild species in the Canary and the Madeira Islands. The wild species agrees in coloration so completely with the captive Hgreen canary with greenish-yellow breast and without. White on remiges and rectrices that only a person with precise and thorough knowledge of both can find any certain distinguishing characteristic. After the Spaniards took possession Of the Canary Islands in 1478 they brought many Of the products of the islands home, and among others these remarkable songsters; but for a long time they were rare in Europe.
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Excerpt from Inheritance in Canaries
From the beginning of the eighteenth century there is a constantly increasing output of books devoted to cage-birds in general and canary birds in particular,§ so that it is possible to reconstruct their history.
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