whose form is given as a general model to work toward, was 

 round, and tapered toward each end. The taper is gradual, in 

 the bird, from the thighs back. Mention is made of the funnel- 

 like expansion where neck passes into body. The accepted angle 

 of carriage is up to sixty-five degrees when the bird is traveling, 

 and from this to seventy-five degrees when alert. The neck is a 

 strong feature, the head and neck together carrying thirty points. 

 Length, thinness, and fineness are especially demanded. In 

 these points, the great majority of American Runners have failed 

 breeders seeming to overlook the added beauty and grace given 

 by a slender neck. The color demanded in contrast with the white 

 is a fawn, rather warm and soft, sometimes expressed also as of 

 "ginger color," a term which the American breeders have adopted, 

 but which I have not seen in the American shows. Many males 

 shown here were decidedly of a pinkish, rather than ginger tone, 

 a shade which carries directly toward the claret disqualified by 

 the American Standard. The color is required to be uniform, 

 from surface to skin. Mr. Walton has used the happy term 

 "Sunny fawn." 



Two tones of fawn are required. These seem to blend into 

 a warm fawn of the true shade desired, when seen from a short 

 distance away. The trick in getting color on the English-bred 

 Runner, is to get one tone a good ginger, and the other as near it 

 as is possible, the outer portion being the lighter. As this is the 

 portion most visible on the breast and body, it gives the appear- 

 ance of evenness, as soon as the new coat loses a little in strength 

 of color. If too weak in color when the new coat is first donned, 

 it will be washy in the extreme after a few months, and will well 

 justify the term so often applied to the lighter birds bred to 

 American Standard, "a dirty white." 



The English Standard lays emphasis on the point that type 

 must receive greater consideration than color or markings. Short, 

 thick necks, squat specimens, smallness at the expense of the long: 



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