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Gouldian Finches
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---- INTRODUCTION
----  New Holland. The expedition of scientific purposes, did not take time in observing birds of showy colors and that was very abundant, mainly roll by the high grass. They were Diamonds of Gould. Single they could capture three units, they described them and they decided to consider them like a new species. (Poephila mirabilis). All the captured diamonds were adult and of red head. Great ornithologist JOHN GOULD, who crossed Australia doing important discoveries, in his points, indicates that he saw a nest of Poephila, placed in the base and within a nest of eagle, whose female was covering eggs. Another scientist discovered in the peninsula of Co Bourg a few similar birds, but of black head. She is when John Gould decided to make of them a new species, to which called Amadina Gouldiae. In spite of its similarity, the color difference seemed to him worthy of consideration. At this moment a " controversy " is created on the denomination of these birds, and if really two species or single one are, with certain diformismos. It did not take in verifying itself that Amadina Gouldiae was " a Poephila mirabilis with a particular librea ". And it is that the diamond of Gould presents/displays a particularity very little common, for a same species exist two different varieties, one of black head and another one of red head, that can coexist and reproduce mating among them. The first diamonds of Gould were concerned in England in year 1,887, where they received an enthusiastic welcome on the part of the fans and Breeder. In 1896 the first diamond alive units of Gould were exposed the following year in Paris and in Berlin. The Ingles P. W. Teague was first in obtaining the reproduction of the diamond of Gould, studying 24 generations and publishing its observations in Aviculture Magazine between 1931 and 1946. And here the great expansion of Diamantes begins de Gould between the fans to the poultry keeping. Gould in one of his works writes: " Its new development is already an attractiveness, but when to the new development the beauty and the elegance are united, the attractiveness is considerably heightened ".
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