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THE EXHIBITION WORKING HOMER. 



Size. — The Exhibition Working Homer should be of medium 

 size, every point in proportion. 



Head. — The head, in profile, rising gradually and almost 

 imperceptibly from -wattle to above the eye, showing 

 no angularity or flatness, the whole giving the ap- 

 pearance of a nice straight-faced bird, with nothing 

 of the chara;oter and sweep of head of the Show 

 Homer; immediately above the eye being the high- 

 est point, then" descending to the neck without 

 exhibiting a broken outline. The top view should 

 show fairly broad between the eyes, gradually 

 narrowing toward the wattle. The crown should be 

 convex from eye to eye, the whole head and beak 

 should be of medium appearance with no suspicion 

 of weakness. 



Beak. — Fairly stout and straight set, both mandibles of 

 nearly equal substance, close fitting, a hard, dark 

 color preferred, in pieds a parti-color beak is admir- 

 able. 



Wattle. — Small and smooth in texture ; free from coarseness 

 and Y shaped. 



Eye. — The eye should be white, pearl or blood red, with a 

 fiery appearance. In whites, a bull eye is admissible. 



Cere. — Small, hard and finely laced, dark colored preferred, 

 in pieds a parti-colored cere is admirable. 



Neck.^Of medium length and thickness, entirely free from 

 gullet, tapering gradually from head to a good broad 

 chest. 



Back. — Short, flat, broad across the shoulders tapering off to 

 the rump and tail. 



Body. — Medium in keel, short, straight in breast-bone, 

 plenty of front and finishing in wedge shape. 



Wing*. — To have powerful and prominent butts, the flights 

 fairly short, strong, broad and closely overlapping. 



Tail. — Close-fitting, having the appearance of one feather, 

 carried clear off the ground, somewhat short in pro- 

 portion to the size of bird, and extending slightly 

 beyond the flights. 



