Due to the length of “Part 4: the origins of the Scots Fancy canary”, I divided the article into two parts.  Part 4b adds three postscripts.  The footnotes follow the same numbering sequence as Part 4a. Postscript 1:  The decline of the Scots Fancy canary The Scots Fancy declined both in popularity and quality towards […]... Read More

“This in every way most remarkable canary is, as its name suggests, a creation of our neighbours across the Tweed, and is wholly and entirely an exclusive speciality, as is the ‘postuur vogel’ in Belgium, of which birds it is doubtless an offshoot, and is, in truth, the  ‘postuur vogel’ of Scotland.” W.A. Blakston in […]... Read More