Hist. Part II

· 1556– It is recorded in history that the first canaries arrived to the New world colonies in America, but it isn’t until the end of the XIX Century that they become common.

· 1575– during the reign of Felipe II of Spain (1575-1598) religious refugees from the Lower Countries (Netherlands) arrive to the city of Norwich in England. These refugees bring with them the canaries that will give rise to the Norwich breed.

· 1585-it is believed that the appearance of the first yellow canary originated from birds given to Queen Elizabeth I by Sir Walter Raleigh. In honor to this event Shakespeare composed the sonnet which relates how the Queen turns canary birds to gold.

· 1622– even before the XVI Century canaries were being bred in Italy, they probably obtained females from contraband or mistakes in sex identification when they were imported from Spain. - The Leyend of the Island of Elba (1622) a writing by the naturalist Giovanni Pietro de Olina narrates about a Spanish vessel headed for Lighorn that encounters a storm and is land bound in the coasts between the Island of Elba and Tuscany. On board were a cargo of canaries which are set free by the tripulation and established colonies inland. The Italians soon took advantage of the incident and reproduce and commercialize their product. Bird merchants take canaries across the Alps to the Tyrol mountains in Germany.

· 1667-the first Dominant Whites appear in Germany

· 1685-the Huguenots flee from France towards Edinburgh in England and take with them their prized canaries which will later give rise to the Lizard and the long time vanished(1830) London Fancy.

· 1700-the Saxon Canary is well known in and out of Germany, predecessors of the Color Canary .

· 1709-Hervieux de Chanteloup publishes his book Nouveau Traité au Serins, in which there is a lists of 29 variations of color including the Lizard, Crested , red eyes, intensives etc…

· 1713– there is credited documentation and acknowledgement of birds possessing water tours, predecessors of the Malinois or Waterslagers.

· 1750-around this time in The Lower Countries (Flanders) the Old Holland and later the Great Canary of Ghents are famous for their great size, arched stance and some with slight frills. These birds were the antecessors of hunched type and frill canaries.

· 1770-the ifrst crested appear but it isn’t until the 1800 that the Crested is established as a breed.

· 1800-from the city of Nuremburg in Germany thousands of Saxon canaries were exported around the world.

the appearance of the Belgian Hunchback and the breeding of the first Frills

· 1850-the Scots Fancy is established as a breed.

· 1873– at the English National the first color fed Norwich are exhibited by Mr. Edward Bemrose who used cayenne as color food.

· 1880-the Harzer Roller emerges from the Old Koller as a perfection by Wilhem Trute of St. Andreasburg in the Hartz Mountains of Germany.

· 1900-the Agate mutation turns up from the breeding stock of Mr. Helder in Leewarden, Holland.

Queen Elizabeth I (1553-1603) Tudorhistory.org

Infanta Carlota Joaquina with a yellow canary

by Mariano S. Maella (1785)

Museum del Prado, Madrid

Southern Frill - ACAU