Plate section
1. Duncker aged 31 – courtesy of R. Gramatzki
2. Canary breeder’s birdroom – courtesy of The Canary Museum, St. Andreasberg, Germany
3. Duncker and Karl Reich – from Yon Grenze 1938
4. Carl Cremer – from Kaedel 1960
5. Jan Steen – Rustic Love – Stedelijk Musea ‘De Lakenhal’ Leiden, The Netherlands
6. Breughel’s The Return of the Herd – Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/Bridgeman Art Library
7. Lancret’s Spring – The Louvre/Bridgeman Art Library
8. Chardin’s, The Bird Organ – The Louvre/Bridgeman Art Library
9. Wild canary – with permission of M. Birkmann
10. The domesticated yellow canary – T. R. Birkhead
11. Duncker’s colour plate – Duncker 1927b
12. The red canary – T. R. Birkhead
End of chapter illustrations
2. A man using a clap net with decoy birds – Markham (1621)
3. Canary – Olina (1622)
4. Birds on Strings – Matthey (2002)
5. Variegated canaries – Duncker (1928)
6. Two canaries at nest – Montagu (1831)
7. A stalking horse (or cow) – Olina (1622)
8. The formula for canthaxanthin – Stradi (1998)
9. The canary chromosomes. The sex chromosomes are the fourth from the left and clearly differ in size. Note too, that the canary, like many birds, typically has many small, poorly defined chromosomes as well as the more usual ones – Ohno (1967)
POSTSCRIPT: Man-bird image – Hohberg (1703)