48 WYANDOTTES. 



coverts following the color of the saddle. Defects The same, and 

 cut the same for too much red or white appearing in tail, or other 

 faults. 



LEGS AND TOES. The same as in Silvers. Defects and cuts 

 the same. 



THE FEMALE. As the female Golden Wyandotte is judged on 

 the same principle of scoring as the female of Silvers, and, as there 

 will be found in both male and female a little more irregularity in 

 the divisions of the colors, they will, for some time to come, be 

 judged a little more severely than their cousins. The female Silver 

 Wyandotte is more favored, so to say, by the character of the 

 defects, as they are usually of the nature of reddish and bronze 

 shadings, pencilings, under-color light, white in tail, too much stripe 

 on neck, back mossy, lacing on breast not going all around, and a 

 white edging to black lacing with under-color light; the female of 

 the Golden variety will show defects which will be much harder to 

 breed out, as the golden color may be marred by pencilings, even 

 double pencilings, as in the Cornish Indian Game, in some speci- 

 mens already reported in England; light shadings, or white in 

 under-color and tail, and the black stripes and lacings, are subject 

 to the same slaty or rusty shadings as the Silvers, and, of course, 

 such defects should have similar cuts. 



We have given as much information on judging as our limited 

 space will allow. In fact, we have transcended the limit set apart 

 for the Silvers and Goldens, on account of the colors and their 

 distribution over the whole plumage. Solid colored breeds do not 

 need so much space for description, mating and judging, as there is 

 but one color to describe, and the defects may be readily judged, 

 as they usually accompany one color; but, in the Silver and Golden 

 Wyandottes, new defects may come up any time, as the colors are 

 not thoroughly and permanently established, and the same class of 

 defects is not always present. "This complication of color, or, 

 rather, combining a penciled and spangled race, out of which to 

 establish a lace plumage, has been no easy matter." In all the exhi- 

 bitions, the examination of the scores of males show the largest cut to 

 be in neck, breast, and body or wings, the latter ruling the highest, 

 while in females they cut heavily in breast and body, neck and back. 

 A man who can correctly judge Silver and Golden Wyandottes, has 

 laid a good and promising foundation for becoming a first-class " all 

 round " poultry judge. 



