8 THE PIGEO^r STANDARD. 



covering at the hock to hide tlie knuckle from view, 

 calltd "stocking-legged." The feet should have 

 longer feathers, so thickly set as to leave no bare 

 places on the toes exposed. The feathers should 

 spread from the foot rather suddenly, forming what 

 is denominated the "slipper." 



Beak. — Fine, mandibles straight, the upper showing slight 

 curve at tip and slightly over-reachiiig the lower. 



Beak Waitle. — Small and line in texture. 



Eye Cere. — Fine and thread-like. 



Carriage.^Upright. 



Movements. — Majestic and proud, with head and crop aloft, 

 gait opposed to straddling — graceful. 



Varieties. — Pieds; black, blue, red, yellow and silver. Plain 

 color; white. Any other colors; mealies, sandies, 

 chequers and splashes, but no mismarked standard- 

 color birds. 



Markings. — Pieds; the head is colored, also the whole neck 

 and back. Including the wing-coverts and crop, ex- 

 cept a crescent-shaped band of white pasMng around 

 the front of the crop, the points or horns reaching 

 within a short distance of the eye. The bib or col- 

 ored patch coming down from the throat and forming 

 the upper edge of the "Crescent" should be large 

 and well defined. There should also be a few white 

 feathers on the shoulders, which are desired, as 

 nearly as may be, to fall separately one from the 

 other in a small circular patch called the "Rose 

 Pinion." These white feathers should be.freefrom 

 the edge of the wing-butt. In blacks and blues the 

 color extends to the end of the tail. Blues should 

 have black bars across the wings and tail. In all 

 colored varieties, the flights, thighs, legs and feet, 

 also the entire under part of the body from the keel, 

 or line across the breast, should be pure white. In 

 reds and yellows the tail also should be white. 

 Whites — Plumage pure white throughout. The five 

 representative colors, excepting blue and silver, 

 should be deep and rich in hue. The blue should be 

 light, bright and even color. Silvers, soft, even shade 

 throughout, with flight and tail-bars as dark as 

 possible. 



Color of Eyes, — In the pied varieties, a bright red or orange; 

 in whites, dark or bull. 



Disqualifications. — Trimming, plucking, coloring, or any 

 artificial alteration, out of condition from disease, 

 any decided deformity, for whites; stained beak; 

 colored feathers ; or if eyes are not bull. 



