I
have only ever seen a photo of this mutation of Java finch on
a Japanese website, I never thought I would ever own one or even
see a real one. I went to my local pet shop to trade in some of
my daughter's baby gunipigs and there bouncing around his bird
cage was this striking Java finch, the shop owner would not sell
the Java by itself, so I had to buy a pair for £20.00 the
second Java was just a normal. There was no way I was going to
walk away from this Java with out buying it.
The photos below are good but it's nothing like seeing this Java
for real.
I
did not have a clue what this Java was called so I posted a photo
to the Java finch group and after a few responses
from the U.S.A and Belgium a name was given, in Japan it's known
as "cherry blossom" and else where Agate
HOW THIS JAVA GOT IT'S NAME
The
Word "Agate"
(Heb. shebo), a precious stone in the breast-plate of the high
priest (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), the second in the third row. This may
be the agate properly so called, a semi-transparent crystallized
quartz, probably brought from Sheba, whence its name. In Isa.
54:12 and Ezek. 27:16, this word is the rendering of the Hebrew
cadcod, which means "ruddy," and denotes a variety of
minutely crystalline silica more or less in bands
of different tints.
This word is from the Greek name of a stone found in the river
Achates in Sicily.
Ref: Easton's Bible Dictionary
www.bible.org/public/easton/t0000120.htm
