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    White head or sable Agapornis fischeri One of these unaccepted combinations are what they call ‘white head’ A. fischeri or sometimes even ‘sable’ A. fischeri. These fischeri do not have the normal grey back of the head in the blue series but an entirely white head. These birds can regularly be found for sale on the internet and some aviculturists firmly believe they are real mutants. Unfortunately, | have to disappoint the supporters of these ‘sables’. Firstly we can state that this is absolutely not a mutation but a (wrong) selection type. You should know that in the normal wild type A. fischeri in addition to black eumelanin, a small amount of red psittacine can also be found on top of the back of the head. The closer towards the neck and wings the more yellow psittacine will appear. This results in the ‘bronze green’ colour on the back of the head and the ‘olive yellow’ colour in the neck of A. fischeri. The mask itself in birds in the wild is about 90% orange red which transitions into yellow towards the demarcation with the green abdominal feathers (just like in the neck). Years ago most judges demanded that the mask of A. fischeri was a uniform orange red. As a result the aviculturists started to select birds with the reddest mask. But what they did not realize is that this also caused the colour on the back of the head to turn nearly completely red. Unfortunately this was not taken into consideration. Because of the arrival of the NSL ino mutant it was expected in A. personatus (actually unjustly so) that the red mask colour should also be intense red. This ensured that a lot of F3 and even already F2 hybrid A. fischeri/A. personatus were used to intensify the red mask colour. Fortunately this error was corrected later on using the standards with regard to the red mask colour of NSL ino green A. personatus. It only makes sense, when selecting in these inter. mediate types, that in order to breed birds with the reddest head colour possible they would select out the eumelanin present (dark pigment), replace the yellow psittacine present by red one and thus create phenotypes which already deviate severely from the existing wild type when it comes to the head colour. This results in green birds with a Nearly completely red head colour. If we breed these birds in the blue series we Will remove the psittacine present in the bird and because of the lack of eumelanin on the back of the head these blue A. fischeri will have a white head. At the end of 1990 the first A. fischeri with a white head were offered at the BVA Masters, but after the breeders received the necessary information and it became clear that these (hybrid) types were not accepted within the BVA, they were sold. As is often the case these birds were exported abroad. Once they arrived they were given a separate name: ‘sable’. The name ‘sable’ was taken from a book by Dr. Alessandro D’Angeiri, The colored Atlas of Lovebirds, in which he published a photograph of a bird from the aviary of Roy Hevesi, an Australian breeder. He published in 1994 in the Australian Birdkeeper journal an article under the title ‘Avocado Fischer’s lovebird New mutation’. A photograph was published of A. fischeri which looked a lot like a PastelIno D green bird. The aviculturist mentioned that this bird was born with bleached eyes. He proudly added that he was going to try to breed this ‘avocado’ in blue. According to insiders this might be the first faded (see the chapter on rare mutations) born in Australia. But the photograph’s quality was not up to par and the breeder’s information was too limited to draw these conclusions. In the same book there was a photo- graph of a (very young) Pastelino like blue bird of the same breeder which is probably the ‘avocado mutant’ in blue which was named ‘sable’. Confusing is the least you can say but one thing is certain: the white heads or ‘sables’ as we

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