MoRWiCH Scales of Points. 



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VARIEGATED. 



(a) EVENLY-MARKED, 



Points of Merit. 



Marking — Eyes : for neatness and regularity of 

 outline — Anterior mark, 10 ; Posterior, lo ; 

 Entire ... 



Wings : for exactness, decreasing in value as the 

 marking extends beyond the secondary fliglils 

 or encroaches on the wing-coverts 



Tail : if not accompanied by discoloured tail 

 coverts — for exactness ... 



Saddle — For width and clear margin 

 Colour — For depth and purity of body-colour 

 Feather — For compactness of body-feather and 

 carriage of wings and tail 



Size and Shape 



Condition 



Total 



Negative Properties. 

 An Evenly-marked Norwich Canary should not have broken 

 or ragged eye-marks or irregular patches on the side of the 

 head, nor marks running towards the top or front of the head 

 over the beak, nor should it have a cap, however symmetrical. 

 It should not show any light flight-feathers mixed with the dark, 

 nor any marking on the greater or lesser wing-coverts, nor 

 on the still smaller coverts fringing the upper margin of the 

 wing, which, when the bird is at rest, are hidden by the 

 scapulars, nor should the feathers of the bastard wing be dark. 

 It should not show any dark feathers on the margin of the 

 saddle where the feathers merge with those of the wing-coverts, 

 nor any discoloration in the upper or lower tail-coverts, nor 

 should there be any mark whatever to interfere with a "clean 

 run " above and below from the beak to the tail. 



(l) TICKED. 



The bona fide Ticked birds are judged for precisely the same features as the Clears, with 

 the exception that the unavoidable presence of dark underflue entails no subtractive value, the 

 points which would otherwise be allotted to white flue and clear beak and legs being distributed 

 between the two all-important features, viz., colour and quality of feather, the scale of points being 

 as under : — 



Colour — Depth and purity 



Brilliancy 



Uniform distribution on body and wings 



Feather — Body-feathers : for compactness 

 Wings : for compactness and carriage 

 Tail: for ditto 



Shape 



Size . 



Condition 



Maximum. 



35 



5 



S 



45 



This scale is still further simplified when applied to the Lightly and Heavily-variegated birds, 

 the property of " Uniform distribution of colour on body and wings " not being referable to birds 

 which are more likely to have dark wings than light. The five points allotted to this property can 

 therefore be added to the first item, and the assessment made as under : — 



(c) variegated proper. 



Marking — Of whatever character 

 Colour — Depth and purity 

 Brilliancy 



Balance— Distributed as before 



Maximum. 

 ttil. 

 40 

 5 

 — 45 

 ... 55 



... 100 



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