SILVER PENCILED WYANDOTTES. 



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Feather No. 1 is too light underneath; also shows white 

 tip — In fact, there is more white than black in this feather. 

 A breaet like this should be cut 3 points. 



Feather No. 2 is good at the end, but entirely too light 

 underneath, showing more than two-thirds white, and 

 should be discounted 2 points. 



Feather No. 3 Is good except at the tip, showing a small 

 splash, and where many feathers of this kind appear in a 

 section the discount should be 1. 



Body and Fluff. 



In describing the color of breast we might iiave added 

 the same description tor body as to color, and the dis- 

 counts would fall equally as heavy upon both. 



In fluff there Is a slight frosting on the end of feathers, 

 not enough to make that section look white, but slightly 

 streaked, and resembles at a distance of a few feet a spider 

 web effect. When extreme matings are practiced; and the 

 male is very dark In all sections, there will be but very lit- 

 tle, if any, of this streaking appear on the surface; but 

 where the males are pullet-bred quite a little of It will 

 show, and sometimes be so white as to demand a discount 

 of from % to 1 point. 



Wings. 



There Is considerable Importance attached to this sec- 

 tion in all the American breeds — In fact, it was considered 

 of such value by the Revision Committee that they have 

 changed the number of points allowed from eight to ten. 

 This change was made, however, more on account of 

 Barred Rocks and Silver Wyandottes than on account of 

 the Silver Penciled varieties. The section is divided, giving 

 six to color and four to shape, and perhaps the best way 

 to apply a score card would be to allow two points for wing 

 bow and bar, two for primaries and two for secondaries, 

 valuing our discounts accordingly. 



The Standard In de'scrfbing the wing of a Silver Pen- 

 ciled Wyandotte male calls for "Primaries, black, lower edge 

 white; secondaries, black, outer web white, terminating 

 with greenish-black at end of each feather; wing coverts, 

 glossy, greenish black, Jorming a well defined bar of that 

 color across wing when folded; bows, silvery white; under 

 color, dark slate." 



The Standard-makers did not tell us whether the black 

 at end of secondaries should be crescentic or spangled, 

 and in our drawings illustrating this section we have made 

 them to conform to the best specimens we have found of 

 this variety. There Is a slight crescentic mark at lower 

 end. This is the white running slightly into the black in 

 our best specimens. 



Fig. 59. 



In Fig. 59 we show a wing folded that conforms closely 

 to the Standard description— white bow, black ba^, with 

 secondaries showing white on outer web. A wing like this 

 would pass without discount in color, but is a trifle long 

 for Its width. 



There is one feature here that It might be well to call 

 attention to, and that is in the wing bar as described by 

 the Standard and as found on the different specimens we 

 handle. It says: "Wing coverts, glossy, greenish-black, 

 . forming a well deflned bar of this color across the wing 

 when folded." We note in looking at the bast specimens 



that it makes what might be termed a double bar, or, in 

 other words, there are two rows of feathers that bring 

 out the color. There is no overlapping of th« black on 

 white, but both rows of feathers end with black and over- 

 lap so that there is but one bar, but it is composed of more 

 than one row of feathers. 



Fig-. 60. 



In Fig. No. 60 is shown a wing that is slightly spread. 

 This wing is defective in bar, also detective in primaries 

 and secondaries, there being entirely too much white. The 

 lower web of feather exposed in primary should be white, 

 upper web should be black. The bar should be solid black 

 and not splotched with white, as in this illustration. The 

 black band along the lower edge ot secondaries should also 

 be black, the white showing through, is a defect. A wing 

 like Fig. 60 should be discounted 2% points — 1 for 

 defective primaries, 1 for defective bar and % for de- 

 fective secondaries. 



Fig. 61. 



In Fig. 61 we show a spread wing that is quite the 

 reverse of No. 60. In this wing we have too much black — 

 the bar is too wide. There are some slightly splotched 

 feathers on wing bow, secondaries have too much black 

 at end, and the outer flight fails in the white edging. This 

 wing represents a male bred along very dark lines, and 

 should be discounted 2 points-^1 for cloudy surface in 

 wing bow, % for absence of white in primaries, Elnd % for 

 too much black in secondaries. 



Tail. 



Tail has a value ot nine points, five of which go to 

 color. This section is usually good in Silver Penciled Wy- 

 andottes. The tail proper should be black; sickles, glossy, 

 greenish-black; .coverts, glossy, greenish-black, or black 

 edged with white. 



