The following are the current classifications for the Irish Fancy Canary at the National Show
Flighted
Cock
01
05
09
13
17
21
25
29
33
37
41
45
49
53
57
61
65
69
73
77
81
85
89
93
97
101
105
109
113
UnFlighted
Cock
02
06
10
14
18
22
26
30
34
38
42
46
50
54
58
62
66
70
74
78
82
86
90
94
98
102
106
110
114
Yellow, Clear
Yellow Ticked or Foul
Buff Clear
Buff Ticked or Foul
White Clear
White Ticked or Foul
Yellow Green, Lightly Variegated
Yellow Green, Medium Variegated
Yellow Green, Heavily Variegated
Buff Green, Lightly Variegated
Buff Green, Medium Variegated
Buff Green, Heavily Variegated
Yellow Cinnamon, Lightly Variegated
Yellow Cinnamon, Medium Variegated
Yellow Cinnamon, Heavily Variegated
Buff Cinnamon, Lightly Variegated
Buff Cinnamon, Medium Variegated
Buff Cinnamon, Heavily Variegated
White, Lightly Variegated
White, Medium Vareigated
White, Heavily Variegated
Fawn, Lightly Variegated
Fawn, Medium Variegated
Fawn, Heavily Variegated
Yellow Green, Self or Foul
Yellow Cinnamon, Self or Foul
Buff Cinnamon, Self or Fould
Blue, Self or Foul
Fawn, Self or Foul
Flighted
Hen
03
07
11
15
19
23
27
31
35
39
43
47
51
55
59
63
67
71
75
79
83
87
91
95
99
103
107
111
115
UnFlighted
Hen
04
08
12
16
20
24
28
32
36
40
44
48
52
56
60
64
68
72
76
80
84
88
92
96
100
104
108
112
116
Terminology
YELLOW - The term used to describe a feather where the pigment goes to the tip of the feather. (Other terms sometimes heard; Hard-feather, Intensive, Non-frost.)
BUFF - The term used to describe a feather where the extreme tip in not pigmented. (Other terms sometimes heard; Soft-feather, Non-Intensive, Frost.)
CLEAR - A bird totally devoid of melanistic pigmentation.
TICKED - A bird with one dark mark that can be covered with a penny.
FOUL - A Self bird with feathers in wing or tail that are devoid of dark pigment.
VARIEGATED - A bird that has one pigmented area larger than a penny, but also has some areas of lipochrome feathering visible.
SELF - A bird that has pigmentation in all of its feathers.
MELANIN - There are two pigments that can appear in the feather of the bird and that can be either Black or Brown.
GROUND COLOR - These are separate from the melanin colors and can be either yellow or white. (Please do not confuse the ground color yellow with the feather hardest of the Yellow term above) It should be noted that the white ground is a mutation of the original yellow ground, which has the effect of reducing the yellow ground to white.
CINNAMON - The brown melanin color (Cinnamon) is one of the first known mutation in canaries. The effect of the mutation dilutes the color of the plumage in variegated areas making it appear as brown. The effect of the mutation also changes the original dark color of the legs, feet and beak to a flesh color. The cinnamon mutation is a recessive sex linked character. When it mutation appears on a yellow ground bird it is know as a Cinnamon.
FAWN - Is used to describe the white ground bird that has the Brown melanin/Cinnamon mutation.
BLUE - Is used to describe the white ground bird that has the Black melanin, which has the effect of giving a slate color to its marking.