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THE AMERICAN 
WHITE GAMES. 
DISQUALIFICATIONS. 
Adult cocks not dubbed; color of legs or plumage not matching, 
when shown in pairs or trios; crooked backs; wry tails; mal- 
formed breasts; duck-feet; trimming or plucking foul feathers. 
THE COCK. 
Head: A pure white, long, thin and tapering, and very- 
strong at its junction with the neck: — Beak, yellow or white, 
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, large, prominent and bright, with a quick and 
fearless expression, and perfectly alike in color. 
Neck : — Eather long and nicely arched — the hackle short and 
close, pure white, and free from any tinge of yellow. 
Back: Eather short, flat, broad across the shoulders, and 
narrowing to the tail — the stern slender and neat, and the sad- 
dle-feathers very short and close, pure white, and free from 
yellow tinge. 
Breast and Body: Breast, pure white, broad, full and 
round: — Body, very firm and muscular, not soft or liollow on 
the sides, broadest at the shoulders and tapering to the tail, 
and, in plumage, clear, pure white. 
Wings: Of medium length and powerful, the butts and 
