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edged with grey, or with pencilhng. Remainder of 

 Plumage : Ground colour, any shade of clear grey ; 

 pencilling black, or a darker shade of grey than 

 the body or ground colour, following the outline 

 of each feather, fine, sharply defined, uniform, and 

 as numerous as possible. 



THE LIGHT 



Plumage of the Cock. — Head and Neck-hacklc : 

 Similar to those of the Dark. Saddle : White, or 

 white sUghtly striped with black, white preferable 

 and the dark saddle only admissible in birds with 

 very dark neck-hackles. Wings : Primaries, black, 

 or black edged with wlute ; secondaries, white on 

 outside web, black on part of inside web. Tail : 

 Black, or black edged with white ; coverts, glossy 

 black, some evenly laced with white. Remainder of 

 Plumage .' Clear white, with either white, blue- 

 white, or slate under-colour, though this latter should 

 not be visible when the feathers are undisturbed. 

 A mixture of black and wliite is admissible in the 

 shank and toe feathering. 



Plumage of the Hen. — Xeck - hackle : Silvery 

 white striped with black, the striping being more 

 dense at the lower part of the hackle, and the black 

 centre of each feather to be entirely surrounded 

 by a white margin. In other respects the colour of 

 the hen is similar to that of the cock. 



SCALE OF DEFECTS 



Defects — Dark V.-^riety, Hen (Conid.)- 



IN THE DARK VARIETY 



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up to 



Colour : impure white, 10 ; breast patched or 

 splashed with white, 7 ; tail splashed with 

 white, 5 ; excessive white in feet or shanks, 



3 ; other defects, 6 . . . . . . . . 31 



Head (including stain of white in lobes, 2) . . 11 



Hackle : want of stripe, 5 ; scanty, 4 . . . . 9 



Legs : feathering, 6 ; pale shanks, 2 . . . . 8 



Size 8 



Carriage or symmetry . . . . . . . . 8 



Wings : primaries out of order . . . . . . 6 



Saddle : scanty or Cochin carriage . . . . 5 



Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 



Fluff : scanty . . . . . . . . . . 3 



Tail : shape or carriage . . . . . . . . 3 



Toes : curved . . . . . . . . . . 3 



Colour : dull or uneven ground, 9 ; white in 



foot feather, 4 ; other defects, 5 . . . . 18 



Marking : irregular pencilhng of body, 10 ; of 



shank feathering, 3 . . . . . . . . 13 



Head (including stain of white in lobes, 2) . . 10 



IN THE LIGHT VARIETY 



Colour : impure white, 10 ; splashes of white 

 in tail, 5 ; black in breast, 4 ; much black 

 in hock, 4 ; black in fluff, 3 ; other defects, 4 



Head (including stain of white in lobes, 2) 



Hackle : want of stripe, 5 ; scanty, 4 



Legs : feathering, 6 ; pale shanks, 2 



Size . . 



Carriage or symmetry 



Saddle : scanty, or Cochin carriage, 5 ; striped 



\Vings : primaries out of condition 



Condition . . 



Fluff : scanty 



Tail : shape or carriage . . 



Toes : curved 



HEN 



Colour : much black m hock, 15 ; impure white, 

 10 ; black splashes, 10 ; other defects, 6 

 Head (including stain of white in lobes, 2) 

 Legs : feathering, 7 ; pale shanks, 2 

 Size . . 



Carriage or symmetry 

 Cushion : scanty, or Cochin carriage 

 Condition 

 Hackle : scanty 

 Fluff" : scanty 

 Tail : shape or carriage 

 Toes : curved 



Serious defects : Comb other than pea shape ; 

 badly twisted hackle or wing feathers ; total absence 

 of leg feather ; great want of size in adults ; total 

 want of condition ; white legs ; deformity of any 

 kind ; buff on any part of the plumage of Lights ; 

 much red or yellow in the plumage or much white 

 in the tail of Dark cocks ; utter want of pencilhng, or 

 patches of brown or red in plumage of Dark hens. 



