revised. Where the latter calls for legs placed well back, and 

 makes legs placed too wide apart a defect, the American Stand- 

 ard demands legs "set well apart." And whereas the English 

 Standard calls for bronzy green on the head and rump of male 

 the American Standard has demanded as the ideal, for the 5 years 

 previous to 1910 a "light fawn" color, which must be even 

 throughout the entire plumage, except where the white markings 

 should be seen. 



The American demand for "light fawn" was modiiied 

 to "fawn" in 1910, but many breeders advertise "golden 

 fawn." The birds show, without doubt, a beautiful color, when 

 really solid and even, pure and unblotched with white; and it is 

 then rightly very much admired. 



In November, 1910, I went to the earlier show held in New 

 York, chiefly to study the Indian Runners. These picked birds 

 were mainly very good in the even color then preferred for both 

 sexes. Only a few were good in carriage ; scarcely one had a fine 

 neck; and fully thirty per cent were notably splashed with white 

 in the fawn of the back. Every female in one of the winning 

 pens as late as 1912-13 showed these white blotches, also. Others 

 had a white line down the breast. These are bad faults to be 

 seen year after year in show birds making special claims on color. 

 If type were placed first, this point would not count so strongly. 



The present foolish insistence on fawn heads and rumps has 

 resulted in what might be called chaos. I find one of the first 

 prize American Standard birds thus described in my notes of the 

 Madison Square Garden show in 1912-13: "Head, good in type; 

 nasty mottHng on neck, below white ; gray rump; whole bird gray- 

 ish fawn ; nice slim neck." A bird scarcely grayer than this was 

 sold by Irving Cook two years earlier as a winner for this Garden 

 show, and it did not get a place. The reason given was the ten- 

 dency to gray. A very large number of the American Standard 

 birds shown at New York for two years past, at least, have had 



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