Show f Ancestry of Canaries I Found Hard to Trace Domestic Dommie canaries have hare been ni altered al- al tired to such inch an extent by hundred hundreds of 01 7 years yeen of f selective breeding that their wild progenitors cannot be positively post poal- Identified ed states a writer In the Pathfinder Magazine Their early history his hili- tory tort II as s cage cage-birds' cage birds I is obscure It U tJ generally supposed however that they sprang from a species spades of finch still stUl stilli i found round lothe In the wild state In n a the Canary r Islands as well as AI off oft tea tha north western coast coad of 01 Africa Th The Th wild Wll birds In the Canary Canarr Islands are grayish brown sometimes varied with Brighter hues hoes but they the never neTe have the plumage so common In the domestic varieties According to the th Usual story torr specimens of these lle wild I birds were cr captured In the Sixteenth t i century and domesticated In Ital Italy whence the they were taken token to other parts port I of ot the th world Canaries breed freely I with the European goldfinch and cor- cor tale tain other species a fact which leads some authorities to believe that the thet t domestic canary Is le the product of Interbreeding In Interbreeding In and not the descendant of t any auy one olle species In tn the United Starrs the common American goldfinch or thistle bird Is III sometime culled called a 1 wild mOil 1 This ThIll of ot course Is II not lIot a canary unar at all all |