Zebra Finch Mutation Follow-up

Abstract

The Oct.-Nov. 1978 Watchbird article describing an apparently new Zebra Finch mutation in a Florida aviary elicited several comments. A Clearwater, Fl. breeder has produced the same mutation, though not in the white form from stock obtained in Sarasota, Fl.

A Ft. Worth, TX breeder says he got a pair, in the cream form, at last year's Dallas National, and raised young like the parents from that pair. He had planned to breed out to normals but found two more birds in September at the Austin (Texas) Show.

"Whatever this mutation is," he observes, "it is more common than you would first think."

The question remaining unanswered:

What is it?

 

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