Ready to Fly This picture shows Priscilla, a variegated gold cinnamon (gold-brown) hen, preparing for flight. This mutation is a gender-linked recessive, that represses black melanins, allowing only brown melanins to show. Depending on the underlying 'ground' (or 'lipochrome') colour, whether white, rose, yellow, or red, one brown canary can look quite different from another, even though they share the same mutation.

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