The Yorkshire Canary

History
The Yorkshire Canary is essentially a "manufactured" breed, created mainly during last quarter of the nineteenth century from various crosses involving common canaries, the Lancashire Plainhead, the Norwich (old-fashioned type), and the Belgian.

Description
The "gentleman of the fancy" as it was so often called by earlier writers, is a bird of style and elegance. The desired attitude when the birds is in full pose in its show cage is almost erect, with a confident and dignified carriage of the body. The legs are long and straight, yet supple and without any suggestion of stiltiness, and should not show too much of the thigh joint.
The feathering is short and close and carried tightly to the body without any suspicion of eyebrow, nor of any roughness or looseness at the thighs or breast, the texture being soft and fine as silk.
The wings are long and are carried close to the body, meeting evenly down the center of the back, and the tail also is long and tightly folded, never being wide and spreading, since a loosely folded tail is a blemish which will inevitably spoil the whole balance of an otherwise good Yorkshire.
The head is being described as "full", with the back of the skull coming well down towards the rising curve of the shoulders so that there is no appreciable appearance of the neck.
The high shoulders are fairly broad and well-rounded, but the main line of the back as viewed from the side is straight and continues so to the root of the tail.
The Yorkshire is one of the larger breeds of canary, the average length being about 6¾ inches.

The Border Canary

Description:
The border canary is a sprightly, active bird, rather lightly built and with a gay and jaunty carriage of the body. It has close and compact feathering showing no tendency whatever to coarseness, so that all its features appear cleanly cut with flowing, harmonious lines.
The head is neat and nicely rounded with a bright, alert eye centrally placed and a fine, smallish beak. The neck is well proportioned in relation to head and body and should never be too thick nor too fine, either of which would destroy the whole effect. The body gives an impression of roundness when seen in cross section and, after a gentle curve over the shoulders, the back gradually tapers off in a straight line towards the root of the tail. The breast also is gracefully rounded, yet without any undue prominence, and again tapers off cleanly between the legs to the underside of the tail producing, along with the line of the back, a perfect wedge shape. The feathers of the tail are closely compacted, continuing exactly the line of the wedge, for if carried too high or too low the whole balance of the bird's appearance would obviously be upset. the wings are compact and carried tightly-braced and close to the body, with the tips of the primary flight feathers just meeting each other -- never overlapping, crossing or failing to meet, which would leave the rump feathers exposed.
In keeping with the general conformation of the bird, the legs are of moderate length and show practically nothing of the thigh joint, while the natural carriage of the body is in a semi-erect position at an angle of approximately 60 degrees.
Fancy societies specifically lay down that the length must not exceed 5 ½ inches.
Border canaries are seen in the following colors White, Blue, Yellow, Buff, Green, Cinnamon, may also be "ticked" or "variegated".