PLYMOUTH ROCK STANDARD AND BREED BOOK 



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DEFECTS IN BARRING OF PLUMAGE 

 PLATE 36 



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Upper Row: 1 Bars: Weak at tip and sides; crescent shaped; 

 light quill. 2 Very irregular; bars join at quill; bars turn backward 

 at sides like inverted V ( ^ '). 3 Barring coarse, smirched badly. 

 4 Two sides of web dissimilar, barring irregular in extreme; light bar 

 joints dark bar at quill, mis-matched barring. 5 Barring extremely 

 V shaped. 6 Barring M shaped toward sides. 



Lower Row: 7 Barring too coarse; bars too few; undercolor lacks 

 barring. 8 Dark bars wider at sides and joined at edges of feather. 

 9 Quill white through the dark bars; light and dark bars run together. 

 10 All but part of bars near tip end, black. 11 White on most all 

 of one side of web. (Much worse fault than black in barred plumage.) 



