国外一家网站GLOSTER(格洛斯特金丝雀）的介绍

阿康芙蓉 · 发表于 2007-8-19 19:54:01

[size=2]History of the Gloster Canary
by Joe A. Bracegirdle

格洛斯特（gloster）金丝雀的历史
  生活中许多最终取得成功的事情都要经历一段挫折的路，格洛斯特（gloster）金丝雀也不例
外。在1919年，1920年一次大战结束后的时间里，格洛斯特（gloster）金丝雀的培育走出了最初
的一步。来自格洛斯特郡的Rogerson夫人还是个小姐，她坚信“这个鸟是如此的小和漂亮”。
  她对嫁接养殖盆景和矮小的树种感兴趣，但在1920年她变的对金丝雀，尤其是Crest 和 Crest
Bred 非常热衷，但是她坚决讨厌金丝雀中那些有过多羽毛的品种。Rogerson夫人觉得如果培育出
一种尺寸只有现有的带冠的品种的一半的品种，它有很小的个子，整洁的羽毛，这样的金丝雀看上
去无疑是非常迷人的。
  此后这个课题又有许多灵感，她开始着手她的饲养计划。Rogerson夫人购买了一些箩娜种冠金
丝雀，把它和从饲养者J.H. Madagan那获得的小个头的边境金丝雀配对，边境金丝雀在1920年是
非常小的品种。
  当Rogerson夫人在尝试培育她的缩小的冠金丝雀的时候，在苏格兰，John McLay，一位众所周
知的饲养者也开始培育缩小的十分流行的冠金丝雀。John McLay的思路是用最小的冠金丝雀与最小
的边境金丝雀配对。
  当者两位专注的饲养者养育这些新品种的鸟时，在那些日子里，对他们的报道使他们被A.W.
Smith，英国最著名的金丝雀饲养者赏识。A.W. Smith鼓励Rogerson夫人和John McLay的成就，
他两有时也交换他们的鸟的血统。
  Rogerson夫人的饲养成就是金丝雀饲养的一个进步，1925年通过A.W. Smith的坚持她同意把迷
你冠金丝雀拿到伦敦国家展览馆展示。和正常的冠金丝雀比这两种金丝雀是完全不同的，它们被分
配了独立的种系，被授予冠亚军。在那些日子金丝雀在公众展示，爱好者能够看到最早的，完全新
的金丝雀品种的诞生。它是由小的箩娜冠金丝雀，小的冠金丝雀和最小的“小宝石’：-早期的边
境金丝雀的组成。
  考虑到Rogerson夫人是培育出新品种金丝雀的第一个爱好者，她住在切尔滕纳姆的格洛斯特镇
，A.W. Smith说他想把这种金丝雀命名为格洛斯特金丝雀。在这个品系种有冠的一类被成CORONA
，另一类有正常的头，被成为CONSORT。
1925年格洛斯特金丝雀第一次在展览馆展示，然后她却发展的很慢，一直延续到第二次世界大战
就停滞不前了，直到以后的七年在下面的格洛斯特金丝雀爱好者的努力下，开始再一次复苏。
无庸致意，1946年爱好者Fred Bryan和他的妻子Vera对格洛斯特金丝雀的复苏有一定的功绩。
在当今时代决不会遇到象Bryants这样的格洛斯特金丝雀养殖者，非常感激他们的努力，感激他们
在早期制定真实的标准对培育格洛斯特金丝雀，使它在现在还在流行。
格洛斯特金丝雀克服了很大的阻碍，今天还在继续向前发展，甚至在城市郊区也很兴旺。
Most successful things in life originate in a very humble way, and the Gloster

Canary was no exception. The very first steps in the creation of the Gloster goes

back to the years after the end of the first world war in 1919 and 1920. Mrs.

Rogerson from Gloucestershire was a lady whose firm believe was \"all things that

were small, were beautiful.\"
She was keenly interested in grafting and development of bonsai trees and bushes.

In 1920 she became very interested in canaries and in particular the Crest and

Crest Bred birds, but she very strongly disliked all the excessive amount of long

uncontrolled feather that these type of canaries had. Mrs. Rogerson felt that if

she could breed a canary that was only half the size of the existing Crest and

which had a much smaller and neater feather, then such a canary would be far more

attractive to look at.

After much thought on the subject she worked a breeding program to commence her

objective. Mrs Rogerson purchased a few crested Roller canaries and these were

paired up to some very small Borders obtained from a breeder J.H. Madagan. The

Border of 1920 was very much smaller in all respects to the Border of today.

While Mrs. Rogerson was making her first attempt to breed a miniature Crested

Canary, in Scotland, John McLay who was a well known breeder and judge of Crested

canaries, started also to breed a miniature of the then quite popular Crested

canary. John McLay's idea was to use his smallest Crests and pair them up to the

smallest Borders that he could obtain.

While these two dedicated breeders were parenting this new type of canary, reports

of what they were doing became known to what I would describe as the U.K.'s best

known canary fancier at that time, A.W. Smith, and he encouraged Mrs Rogerson and

John McLay in their efforts and from time to time they exchanged breeding stock.

Such was the progress made by Mrs. Rogerson in her breeding success that through

the persistence of A.W. Smith she agreed to enter two of her miniature Crests at

the London National Show held in 1925. As these two canaries were completely

different in appearance to the normal Crests, they were allocated a separate class

of their own and were awarded first and second prize. This was the first time that

this canary had been exhibited in public, and fanciers were able to see at a very

early stage the birth of a completely new \"Type\" canary the foundation of which

consisted of small crested rollers, small Crests and the smallest \"Wee Gems\" - the

early Border.

In view of the fact that Mrs Rogerson was the first fancier to create this new

type of canary and she lived in Cheltenham, Gloucester, A.W. Smith said that he

thought the Bird should be known as the GLOSTER canary, the one which had the

crest should be called CORONA and its breeding partner which had a normal head

should be called a CONSORT.

In 1925 the Gloster made its first appearance on the show bench, then as it was

slowly increasing, along came the second world war which put a complete stop to

the holding of canary shows for the next seven years and then slowly the whole

canary fancy began to come to life once more bringing with it a vigorous following

of Gloster breeders.

Undoubtedly the fanciers who were mostly responsible to revive the Gloster in 1946

were Fred Bryant and his wife Vera. All present day Gloster breeders who never met

the Bryants should be very grateful to them for their efforts and skill in setting

the early standards and were truly responsible for making the Gloster what it is

to-day regarding its popularity.

The Gloster Fancy has had to overcome great mountains of resistance to overcome

and rise up so high. The Gloster fancy of to-day is even better poised to continue

its forward movement to even greater success.

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