Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-30 | Page 21 | Wild Canary to Have Debut in N. Y. Theatre

I LD LD CANARY A ARiTO TO HAVE AVE JE DEBUT INN IN INa 1 N Y L a THEATRE I NEW YORK YORE Oct 30 SO AP The AP-The The Id pure blooded canary Is due 7 L L f I for tor Us tte s. s debut te t bolero Cc t the tho o OOt t I. I In New rew Yurko Yerk A A company cf of t the these o genuine 5 5 I 5 Inch e native Canary Can Islanders are I coUin conin coming here to in lit the bird chorus ir-an- ir evl b by the International I i Roller Canary Breeders' Breeders asso- asso I claton clation a at their show stow December 1 19 11 11 Bird fanciers from all aU parts of ot the i I Unit United d States will bring their do domesticated domesticated do- do I do-I me songsters to match the ti tremulous emulous trill of ot their blue-blooded blue I ancestors The Greater Grater New York Canary club announced that more than canaries will be In competition com- com petition for prizes The wild canary is not more than five and one-half one Inches in length Some of its domestic relations me measure sure eight inches Most 1 of ot the I varieties of which twenty-seven twenty were recognized as early as the i eighteenth century by French fanciers fanciers fanders fan fan- fanI I ciers ders differ merely In color and markings of the plumage The natural song of the canary is js 1 native and clear and In their groves especially during mating season they sometimes sing with I such ardor aidor that they burst the delIcate delicate delicate deli delI- cate vessels of the throat The females are said to select the best singers for their mates causIng causing causing caus caus- ing considerable competition in canary canary canary ca ca- ca- ca nary melodies One of ot the most valued varieties has at first black wing and tall tail feathers a a. peculiarity which disappears disappears disappears i pears after the first molting The less desirable are those on which the plumage is Ig irregularly spotted I and speckled A native of ot the Canary Islands and Madeira the canary was first d domesticated in Italy In in the sIxteenth sixteenth sixteenth six sIx- century It soon spread over Europe and later to America