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By Alexander Wetmore
The Bengalee is a domesticated variety credited to the Japanese and developed from the
crossing of small weavers of the genus Uroloncha, its history being so obscure that the exact
ancestry is not known.
These are chunky little birds that handle as
easily as canaries, since they are accustomed
to live only in cages and would be completely
at a loss if they found themselves at freedom.
There are three varieties – a dark-brown one
and a light – brown one with extensive white
markings, both shown in Color Plate IV, and
a third, not illustrated, that is pure white
throughout, except for the feet and bill.
Originally appeared in the December 1938 issue of the National Geographic Magazine
This Web version COPYRIGHT 2004
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