PLYMOUTH ROCK STANDARD AND BREED BOOK 



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bars are desired, for such is not the case. Finely or closely 

 barred birds are, however, most emphatically demanded for the 

 show room, and without question specimens in which the dark 

 bar slightly predominates appear to be much more closely barred 

 than those on which the light bar is a little the broader. For 

 this reason, if one bar or the other is to predominate, all breed- 

 ers and judges as well, without dissension, prefer that it should 

 be the dark bar. 



Direction of the Bar. The ideal bar extends straight across 

 the feather that is, at right angles to the shaft. Every bar is 



PLATE 26 





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BARKING IN BARKED PLYMOUTH ROCK PLUMAGE 



Relative width of bars: 

 Extremely narrow. 



1. Broad. 



2. Medium. 



Narrow. 



Note This group of feathers may lead to the conclusion that 

 broad feathers have broad bars and that narrow plumage has narrow 

 bars, which does not always prove to be the case. 



