STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE. 
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SILVER DUCKWIKG GAMES. 
DISQUALIFICATIONS. 
Adult cocks not dubbed; color of legs or plumage not match- 
ing, when shown in pairs or trios; crooked backs; wry tails; 
malformed breasts; duck-feet; any artificial coloring; trimming 
or plucking foul feathers. 
THE COCK. 
Head: Silvery- white, long, thin and tapering, and very 
strong at its junction with the neck: — Beak, olive or yellow, 
slightly curved and strong at the base. 
Comb, Wattles and Ear-lobes: Comb, bright red in 
chickens that have not been dubbed, single, small and thin, 
low in front, serrated, erect and straight: — mature birds to be 
neatly dubbed, and free from warty excrescences, small feath- 
ers, or ridges on the edges : — Wattles, bright red, very thin, and 
smooth in texture: — Ear-lobes, bright red, small, thin and 
smooth in texture. 
Eyes: Eed, or deep bay, large, prominent, and bright, with 
a quick and fearless expression, and perfectly alike in color. 
Neck: Eather long and nicely arched; hackle, short and 
close, clear white, without any mixture of black or any other 
color. 
Back: Silvery-white, rather short, flat, broad across the 
shoulders, and narrowing to the tail, — the stern slender and 
neat, and the saddle-feathers a clear white, and very short and 
close. 
Breast and Body: Breast, black, broad, full and round: — 
Body, very firm and muscular, not soft or hollow on the 
sides, broadest at the shoulders and tapering towards the tail; 
underpart of the body black. 
