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THE CAMPINES 



ber of white bars increases, but they are narrower. All 

 of the breast, the feathers of the down, of the thigh, 

 should be well barred. 



Tail: Main tail feathers, black as they can be, bor- 

 dered with gray or white. 



The Sickles: Black or bordered with gray or white. 

 The lesser sickles black or slightly laced. The small 

 sickles, if possible, well barred. 



Hen 



Flight Coverts: Regularly barred. 



Secondaries: Idem. 



Wing Coverts: Idem. 



Feathers of Loin: The white bar on the back and 

 loins become very narrow. 



Breast: Most clearly and regularly barred^ a little 

 lighter under the beak. 



Tail: Black-grayish. 



The Sickles: The two large sickles barred if possi- 

 ble. The lesser sickles barred. 



Gold Campinas 



Same standard as for the Silver, substituting the 

 word "Gold" in place of "White." The ground color 

 gold, as intense as possible, not a washed-out yellow. 



Serious Defects — (Disqualifications) 



Squirrel or wry tail. 



Feathers on the leg, or color other than blue. 

 More than four toes. 



Comb other than single, sprigs or over-de- 

 veloped comb. 



5. Red eye (in young fowls). 



6. White in the face. 



7. Equal width bars. 



8. Barred wing-bow, or saddle feathers barred. 



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Study of Campine Feathers 



By Bev. J. N. Wynne Williams B. A. En«laod 



EVEN among Campine breeders there seems a lack 

 of knowledge as to what the requirements of a 

 Campine are. Judging quite recently at a show, 

 where there was a Campine class, I was accosted after- 

 wards by a young lady, who, with every mark of disap- 

 pointment in face and tone, yet enquired gently why her 

 birds had not won. I went into particulars with her, 

 and I am satisfied she went away with a much fuller 

 knowledge of Campines than she had before the 

 judging. 



Therefore, a word to novices upon essentials. There 

 are things very desirable and those absolutely anathema 

 about Campine feathers. A poor bird has no sheen 

 whatever, a dead, sooty black, and it hardly matters 

 how well marked it may be if the feathers have no 

 lustre, the bird is not much good as a show bird. This 

 class of bird is very liable to have fawn markings, and 

 a good deal of pepper and salt, in the sickles partic- 

 ularly. The sheen must be a brilliant beetle green, and 

 ought to show itself all over the bird. That is one point. 

 Another is clarity of ground color. Whether gold 



or silver, it must be clear. 



Really, the white and the 



gold are the ground color; 



but with a sort of unac- 



countableness that I cannot 



quite make out, the usual 



mode of talking about the 



markings of Campines has, 



I am informed, been re- 

 versed by the committee of 



the Campine Club, and the 



black is the ground, and the 



white or gold the bars. 



Strange! Whatever can have 



brought about the reversal 



of that which has been the 



proper way ever since bar- 

 ring was barring in the poul- 

 try fancy? Personally, I stick 



to the old way! No pepper 



and salt in the ground color 



anywhere! 



The black must be very 



sharply and very broadly 



cut, indeed. It does not in all feathers run quite trans- 

 versely across the web of the feather. In the saddle 

 hackles, of which I here give an illustration, it will be 

 seen that in some feathers there is a distinct inclina- 

 tion for the marking to arch across the web, whereas 

 towards the tip of the feather the white runs more in 

 what would be termed mackerel marking. 



Each of these feathers here sketched was produced 

 in the reality. They are all drawn from "life" and are 

 not a fabrication of an ideal which has never yet been 

 produced. We want to see this hackling brought more 

 and more to perfection. For a while it ought to be 

 bred for specially. I think a few seasons would pro- 

 duce it. The trio of feathers sketched shows the very 

 broad barring insisted on for Campines by the Standard. 

 I would specially draw the attention to the tips, 

 which are black and not gray. That fatal grayness at 

 the tip destroys all symmetry of marking. It does not 

 help to form the beautiful rings at all, but, on the con- 

 trary, confuses them dreadfully. — Reprinted from "Poul- 

 try," London, Eng. 



