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This attractive but much less lively colored "other half" of the Black-hooded Red Siskin will also produce fertile canary
hybrids. The female siskin illustrates very well the dimorphic colorations common to many wild birds, being slightly orange in
many of the areas showing deepest red in the male Black-hooded Red Siskin
These siskins are considerably smaller than even very small canaries, and they have an unattractive wild song. As might be
expected, their coloring, size, and song characteristics are transmitted to the hybrids resulting from crossing with the
canary. The fancier, through selective breeding back to desirable canary stock, endeavors to eliminate unwanted siskin
characteristics and at the same time retain the effects of the red coloring which produces many shades of apricot, orange, and
copper.
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