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BREAST. If the breast be crooked, it is cut one to two points; 

 if flat in front or wedge-shaped, or if it fails in being broad and 

 round, it is cut for either defect from one-half to one and a half 

 points; if the plumage be too light, having a very narrow black 

 lacing, it is cut one point; if the lacing be wide, and brown in color 

 in place of being black, it is cut one point; if the breast be too dark, 

 it is cut one-half to one and a half points, as in degree; if slaty lacing, 

 one-half to two points; irregularity of line between colors, is cut 

 one-half to one and a half; if white edge to the black lacing appear, 

 it is one-half to one point; if there be a failure of lacing on the 

 females, it is cut from one-half to two points. 



BODY. This should be thick, deep in front of thighs and well 

 rounded at the sides, with a corresponding fullness of fluff. If the 

 sides be flat, it is cut one point; if lack of depth, or shrunken in 

 fluff, or spare in sides, each defect is cut from one-half to one point, 

 as in degree; if there be -an excess of fluff and of dropping down 

 behind, it is cut one-half to one point; if plumage be white, it is cut 

 one-half to one and a half points; if black fluff, one-half to one 

 point; white splashes in front of thighs, from one half to one and a 

 half points. The male is black, or black slightly frosted with white, 

 upon the under part of the body; and the fluff should be dark slate, 

 or dark slate powdered with gray. The female is less faulty in these 

 points; for white underpart of body, or smutty black fluff, or for 

 white fluff, the penalty of each defect is from one-half to one point. 



WINGS. They are medium large and should be carried high 

 enough to cause a flat cape across the backhand when this is 

 defective it is cut one point; drooping wings, one point; when wings 

 are imperfectly folded or one wing carried higher than the other, it 

 is cut from one-half to two points; the latter cut is for wings which 

 have the primaries folded outside the secondaries, usually designated 

 ''slipped wing." There is another defect in wings which the 

 Standard has not noticed, and which judges have seldom if ever 

 specially noted; it is the weakness of the pectoral muscles, which 

 are continually contracting and relaxing the wings. If the weak- 

 ness be from fighting or flying, and can be shown that it is tempo- 

 rary, a point or point and a half cut, to be considered the same as 

 drooping wings; but if the weakness be from natural cause, the 

 judge would be justified in disqualifying the specimen. The wing- 

 bars are the most important sections of the wing, as the Standard 

 calls for "a double-spangled bar." If the wings wholly fail in the 

 bars, or, in other words, if the bar or bars are wanting, it is cut two 



