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THE AMERICAN 
GRAY GAMES. 
DISQUALIFICATIONS. 
Adult cocks not duhbed; color of legs or plumage not match- 
ing, when shown in pairs or trios; crooked backs; wry tails; 
malformed breasts; duck-feet; artificial coloring; trimming or 
plucking foul feathers. 
THE COCK. 
Head: Silvery-gray, long, thin and tapering, and very strong 
at its junction with the neck: — Beak, dark willow or horn- 
color, slightly curved, and strong at the base. 
Comb, Wattles and Ear-lobes: Comb, 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 feathers, or ridges 
on the edges : — Wattles, red or purple, very thin and smooth in 
texture: — Ear-lobes, dark red or purple, small, thin, and 
smooth in texture. 
Eyes: Deep bay or brown, large, prominent and bright, 
with a quick and fearless expression, and perfectly alike in 
color. 
Neck: Rather long and nicely arched, — the hackle short and 
close, and, in color, silvery-gray. 
Back: Silvery-gray, rather short, flat, broad across the 
shoulders, and narrowing to the tail, — the stern sletider and 
neat, and the saddle-feathers very short and close, and gray in 
color. 
Breast and Body: Breast, broad, full and round; in color, 
black; the shafts of feathers silvery-gray, the color growing 
darker as it approaches the lower part of the .thighs : — Body, 
