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CHAPTER II. 

 COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCK PLUMAGE 



STANDARD DESCRIPTION 

 Disqualifications 



One or more solid black or brown feathers on surface of 

 back of females ; positive black spots prevalent in web of feathers 

 of back except slight dark or black stripes in saddle near tail of 

 male or in cape of either sex; red feathers in plumage; shanks 

 other than yellow. (See general and Plymouth Rock disquali- 

 fications.) 



COLOR OF MALE 



Head. Plumage, white. 



Beak. Yellow, with dark stripe down upper mandible. 



Eyes. Reddish-bay. 



Comb, Face, Wattles and Ear-Lobes. Bright red. 



Neck. Hackle, web of feather solid, lustrous greenish-black 

 with a narrow edging of white, uniform in width, extending 

 around point of feather ; greater portion of shaft, black ; plumage 

 in front of hackle, white. 



Wings. Bows, white except fronts, which may be partly 

 black ; coverts, white ; primaries, black, with white edging on 

 lower edge of lower webs ; secondaries, lower portion of lower 

 webs, white, sufficient to secure a white wing-bay, the white 

 extending around ends of feathers and lacing upper portion of 

 upper webs, this color growing wider in the shorter secondaries, 

 sufficient to show white on surface when wing is folded; re- 

 mainder of each secondary, black. 



Back. Surface color, white; cape, black and white; saddle, 

 white, except feathers covering root and sides of tail, which 

 should be white with a narrow V-shaped black stripe at end of 

 each feather tapering to a point near its lower extremity. 



Tail. Black; the curling feathers underneath, black laced 

 with white ; sickles and coverts, lustrous greenish-black ; smaller 

 coverts, lustrous greenish-black edged with white. 



Breast. Surface, white ; undercolor bluish-white, at juncture 

 with body, bluish-slate. 



