Cage & Aviary Birds

Why I breed the London fancy

N REPLY to the letter from David Urmston regarding the authenticity of the current London fancy canary ( June 29), I knew the last secretary of the London Fancy Club before it folded, many years before I was born. He was a very old man, and a very young one: Cyril H. Rogers! I would ask David what he knows regarding the London fancy. He implies that the odd bird “may resemble” the London fancy. I wonder if he realises that the better Londons leave the

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