SILVER WYANDOTTES DESCRIPTION. 13 



DESCRIPTION. 



THE MALE. 



HEAD. This section is independent of comb, ear-lobes and 

 wattles. It is the part which embraces beak, arch and crown; 

 these give a definite shape to the head. The configuration is de- 

 cidedly Cochinish, with just such modification as to relieve it of the 

 heavy eyebrows of the Cochin; but still it shows a beetling brow, 

 which is also noticeable in the female. 



BEAK. This does not differ from Asiatics or Plymouth Rocks 

 in form. It is yellow, with a heavy stripe of dark horn color 

 shading the upper mandible, the yellow showing on the point and 

 lower edges. 



FACE. This is a deep red color, rather than bright. The 

 eyes are bay; ear-lobes red, well developed and folding where 

 they curve; comb is bright red, rose in form, being low and flat, 

 somewhat narrower at the base than top, with less prominence of 

 spike than that of the Hamburg the comb following the curve of 

 crown to back of head, and the surface evenly corrugated; wattles 

 are bright red, medium size, and 1 hang below a line with ear-lobes; 

 plumage is smooth, short and silvery-white in color. 



NECK. This is short, well arched, and abundantly supplied 

 with hackle; the plumage of hackle is silvery-white, heavily striped 

 with black down the center of each feather, and tapering to a point 

 at the extremity. A good Dark Brahma hackle is the ideal to attain. 

 The silver edging should be free from smut or black lacing a com- 

 mon, and, I might say, a general fault, is the outer edge of the lac- 

 ing near the point being penciled with black. 



BACK. This should be short and broad, and appear flat across 

 the shoulders; the plumage is silvery-white on surface, and should 

 be free from brown; under-color is slate, but the webs are frequently 

 tinged with straw-color, and difficult to breed out; saddle is full and 

 broad, and preserves a concave sweep from back to tail; plumage 

 is silvery- white, with a black stripe running through the center of 

 the feathers, same as in hackle. 



BREAST. This should be deep and round; under-color of 

 plumage slate, web of feathers black with medium-sized white 

 centers, which taper to a point near the extremity, the white in- 

 creasing in size with the prominence of breast. 



BODY. This should be short and deep and suggestive of being 

 blocky in appearance; the under-color of plumage is slate, and the 



