SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES. 



In some of the best specimens that we have found the 

 secondaries as well as the other feathers directly under- 

 neath the wing show a lacing of black on outer edge of 

 white, similar to the Sebright Bantam, and this lacing is 

 undoubtedly correct, as the more lacing we can get on 

 wing the easier it is to obtain it on other sections. 



In Pig. 19 is shown a wing that conforms to our 

 idea of perfection. Perhaps the black lacing is a little 



Fig. 19. 

 wide, but if we could get wings as well laced as this we 

 would be satisfied that we were making a step in the right 

 direction, and such a wing should not be discounted. 



Fig. 20. 



In Fig. 20 is shown one of our old-style Silver 



Wyandotte wings spangled bar, no lacing on secondaries 



and just such wings as we considered ideal some fifteen 

 years ago. A male with a wing like this today would not 

 have a look in the show room and the breeders would dis- 

 card it as worth only its value on the market. It should 

 be discounted 2 points. 



In studying the many males exhibited at the different 

 shows the past few years we find that the Golden Wyan- 

 dotte breeders have surpassed the Silvers in correct lacing. 

 This is especially true in wings, and in Pig. 21 is shown a 

 Golden Wyandotte male wing that is laced like that of a 



pullet, and this is not an overdrawn picture, as we have 

 found specimens showing as good lacing on wing bow as the 

 one illustrated, and in one case a Silver cock bird was shown 

 at Lansing, Mich., equally as good — in fact, a hen-feathered 

 male from comb to end of tail, very much after the style of 

 our Silver Sebrights. 



In Pig. 22 is shown a group of feathers illustrating 

 some of the defects common in hundreds of our Silver 

 Wyandottes. 



Fig. S2. 



Peather No. 1 would fill our Standard description of 

 flight feathers. 



Peather No. 2 shows tracing of white near the shaft 

 and should be discounted % point. 



Peather No. 3 is too white at tips and should be dis- 

 counted % point. 



Peather No. i is very defective, showing only a trace 

 of black along the shafts, and should be discounted 2 

 points. 



Peather No. ."5 shows muddy color, the black and white 

 intermixing, more black than white, and In both Wyan- 

 dottes and Brahmas would be considered by the breeders 

 a serious defect, and should be discounted 2 points. 



Peather No. 6 shows a secondary with the same de- 

 fect and one that is sometimes found on males of this va- 

 riety, and should be discounted 1% points. 



In making these deductions it is well for the readers 

 to bear in mind that these discounts would be made if all 

 other parts of the wing were perfect in color, and it is sel- 

 dom that two or more of these defects appear on the same 

 wing, but in this, as in other sections that are subdivided, 

 you can only cut to the limit the number of points al- 

 lowed, and in scoring either the Silver or Golden Wyan- 

 dottes the judge must remember that there are only 6 

 points allowed for color, and that three of them go to 

 white or gold and three to black, and when a defect shows 

 in only one of these colors the discount must be made ac- 

 cordingly. As for, illustration, ' should the black be all 

 good and only the white defecttve, no matter how bad It 

 might be, it can be cut only 3 points. 



Tail. 



This is another section where an addition has been 

 made to the points allowed for color, and instead of hav- 

 ing four, as in the old Standard, five points are allowed. 

 This was hardly necessary in Wyandottes, but was consid- 

 ered of vast importance in Plymouth Rocks. But it is well 

 at all times for the judges to remember in scoring by the 

 present Standard that there are five points, and the per^ 

 oentage must be figured accordingly. 



The color of tail of the Silver and Golden Wyandottes 

 should be glossy black; sickles, same color; tail coverts, 

 black; lesser coverts, black with an edge of white, or gold 

 in the Golden variety. 



In view of the fact that this section is usually good, 

 we call attention only to such defects as are most com- 

 monly met with. 



There are cases, especially in cock birds, where the 

 base of sickles shows white; if only slightly, the discount 

 would be only % point; if the white in sickles shows be- 

 yond the tail coverts, the out would be 1; if main tail shows 

 white at base, the discount would be from % to 1%, as in 

 degree. 



