barb-fantails

Updated: May 7, 2025

I then crossed one of the mongrel barb-fantails with a mongrel barb-spot, and they produced a bird of as beautiful a blue colour, with the white loins, double black wing-bar, and barred and white-edged tail-feathers, as any wild rock-pigeon!

Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition