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SWALLOW STANDARD. 



SHAPE Chubby and crouching. 



HEAD Dove-shaped, showing an indentation over the 

 wattle; rather low, but slightly convex on the crown. 



BEAK Slender, rather long and straight, the upper man- 

 dible dark, the under one light in color. 



WATTLE Very small and smooth, showing a whitish 

 bloom. 



EYE CERE Very fine in texture and dark in color. 



EYES Black or ' bull-eyed. ' 



NECK Short and rather thick or cobby in appearance, but 

 having no sign of gullet. 



SHOULDERS Broad and rather full-set, the back being also 

 wide and flat. 



LEGS Short and rathe?- wide apart. 



MARKINGS Whole body white, with the exception of the 

 cap, wings and the leg and foot feathering below the hocks. 



CAP Extending from tae wattle to the back of skull at a 

 clean-cut line, dividing the dark skull plumage from the 

 wMte of the lower part of head, such line of demarcation to 

 be drawn from the juncture of the mandibles straight under 

 the eyes o .. to the back of the upper part of the head, just 

 fringing bat not intruding into the white lining of the crest. 



CRESJ. -To extend from back of eye to eye, rising about 

 one-quarter of an incb over the cap, showing cup-like cavity, 

 I nt not resting on or touching the head ; the crest should be 

 wholly white including the inner lining, 



WINGS -All small and large feathers dark below the scap- 

 ula plumage; this should form a kind of heart-shaped white 

 saddle lying at the top of the shoulder end of the back. 

 Flight feathers long and wide in web. 



TAIL Wholly white; the larger tail feathers should be 

 rather long and wide in web, 



