Scale for Judging Scotch Fancy Canaries. 



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SCALE OF POINTS FOR JUDGING SCOTCH FANCY CANARIES. 



Points of Merit. 

 SHAPE. 



Head — Small, neat, and very flat on the crown 



Neck — Long, thin, and tapering 



Shoulders — High, narrow, rounded, and well filled 



in between the pinions... 

 Back — Long, narrow, round, and well filled 

 Breast — Hollow, and without any prominence 

 Side — Long, and well exposed 

 Wings — Long, and carried very closely 

 Tail — Long, supple, well covered at the base 

 Legs — Long and straight, without being rigid 



thighs well covered ; shins set well back 



CONTOUR, OR MODEL. 



Attitude— Erect. Head carried well forward, with 

 neck extended and forming with back and 

 tail — which must be curved under the perch — 

 one continuous arc. Throat, breast, and under 

 surface of the body forming the concave sweep 

 of the crescent ; the whole rounded as if turned 

 in a latlie 



Size 



ACTION. 

 For Nerve, sprightly regulation-hop, and smart re- 

 covery ... 



Total 



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— 25 



Negative Properties. 

 shape. 

 A Scotch Fancy should not have a large, coarse head, nor a 

 high skull, nor should it have a short, thick neck ; neither 

 should it have broad, angular shoulders, nor show any hollow be- 

 tween the pinions. It should not have a short, broad, or hollow 

 back, neither should it have a prominent, chubby breast, nor 

 should the breast be frilled, nor show any development of feather 

 or similar obstruction to the clear concave sweep from the throat 

 downwards. It should not be short in the side, nor carry its 

 wings so as to hide the side, nor should its wings be short or in 

 any way slovenly in carriage. It should not have a short tail, 

 neither should the tail be straight and inflexible, broad, fan- 

 shaped, or deeply serrated. It should not have short legs. 



CONTOUR, OR MODEL. 

 A Scotch Fancy should not stand "over the perch," nor 

 should it stand rigidly erect, neither should it destroy the curve- 

 line of the body by depressing its head and elevating its shoulders 

 like a Belgian in position. Jt should not expose its thighs, nor 

 stand with its legs forward, nor with iis tail tucked-in under the 

 perch as if attached to a hinge, nor disport itself in a way so as 

 to break the continuity of the convexed outline of the back. It 

 should not be small. 



ACTION. 



A Scotch Fancy should not be sluggish or listless, nor should 

 it be slovenly or shuffling in its gait, neither should it be fussy 

 or wanting in precision in any of its movements. In its hop 

 it should not make any use of its wings, nor land on the opposite 

 perch as if from a flight ; nor should it appear nervous or timid 

 or cling to its perch, leaning back and thrusting its tail under- 

 neath as if for a counterpoise. Neither should it hesitate nor 

 steady itself before or after its hop by holding-on to the side 

 of the cage with one foot, nor should it delay a moment in 

 whisking round into position, nor in any of its motions destroy 

 the general outline of its shape. 



