Contents

Preface to the 2014 Paperback Edition

Preface

1. Igniting the Genome

2. Catching, Keeping and Status

3. The Music of Nature

4. Music in the Brain

5. The Variegation Enigma

6. Domestic Life and Death

7. Mixed Blessings

8. Fugitive Red

9. Not by Genes Alone

10. Honest Red?

Acknowledgements

Postscript

A Note on Sources

Plate Section

List of Illustrations

A Chronology of Canaries

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

Also by Tim Birkhead