OF STANDARD FOWLS 
harmonizes with dark chocolate surface and both 
are on the downward slant beyond the highest or 
most brilliant point in red color tone, as the dulled 
aura shows. 
A light red or silvery red under-color is very 
unstable and many times in second moult de- 
generates into white patches throughout under- 
color, and is coupled generally with weak change- 
able surface color. Too dark surface color 
without slate or smoke underneath is generally 
accompanied by the dangerous silvery red under- 
color. Surface color with a silvery red or roan 
overcast is allied to the aforesaid silvery red 
under-color and is a pernicious defect hard to eradi- 
cate. Black or brown stripes in hackle of young 
males never moult out, but black tips at base of 
hackle will moult out. A male which shows these 
black tips in chick feathers will not have them in 
adult plumage; but this marking in chick plumage 
indicates afuture breeder of pullets with the re- 
quired black tips in hackle. Old males sometimes 
show this black tip in hackle when part through 
the moult but when moult is complete it is not 
there. Males with the permanent black or brown 
stripes in hackles will sire pullets with an over- 
plus of black in hackles and if said males have a 
light shaft in this black or brown stripe, the fe- 
males from such a sire will invariably be covered 
with these disfiguring light shaftings on entire 
body, back and breast plumage. Young males 
will also carry the same on body .and breast sur- 
face. Lacings on edge of feathers show the union 
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