The origin of most color mutations is known. From what we see in the literature, the pied (variegated) mutation is the oldest one. Pied (short for piebald) means that there is color breaking or patches of white interupting the color of the bird. The fawn mutation had arisen in Asia a long time ago most likely in a population of pied chocolates. Much more recently, the gray and the ino mutations arose in Europe and even more recently the pearl mutation arose in Japan. Many of these color mutations can be combined along with feather mutations to give dozens of unique combinations. "Selfs" are solid color birds. The best evidence indicates that these birds are repressed pieds and not wild type birds. They were derived from taking different colored pieds and breeding the least white to the least white to obtain birds with no little or no white at all. Selfs often are "leaky" meaning they throw out white feathers usually under the beak or between the legs. If you want to go to a particular mutation first, I've linked them separately in a link table down below. But for the full monte start with the "next" button.

Chocolate (not mutant)	Chestnut	Fawn
Albino	Creamino	Gray
Mottle Pied	Marked White	Pearl
Dark Eyed White	Dilutes	Combinations
Oddities