CANARIES
THE Persian Rasmi is one of the newly recognised breeds of canary. Persia is the old name for Iran, where the breed was developed. According to the breed standard, Rasmis were first kept as song canaries, and then with the addition of some frill canary blood the smooth-feathered and larger-headed birds were kept and selectively bred during the late 1970s.
After the revolution in Iran during 1978, it
