STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE. 
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WHITE LEGHORNS. 
DISQUALIFICATIONS. 
Comb, falling over to either side^ or twisted in cocks, or 
pricked or duplicate in hens; red ear-lobes; legs other than yel- 
low; plumage other than white, or with colored feathers in any 
part thereof; crooked backs; wry tails. 
THE COCK. 
Head: Short and deep, color, pure white: — Beak, yellow, 
rather long and stout: — Eyes, full and bright: — Face, red, and 
free from wrinkles or folds. 
Comb : Eed, of medium size, erect, firmly fixed on the head, 
single, straight, deeply serrated (having but five or six points — 
five preferred), extending well over the back of the head, and 
free from twists, side-sprigs, or excrescences. 
Ear-lobes and Wattles: Ear-lobes, white or creamy- 
white, fitting close to the head, and rather pendant, smooth 
and thin, and free from folds or wrinkles: — Wattles, red, long 
and pendulous. 
Neck: Long, well arched, the hackle abundant, and flowing 
well oyer the shoulders, — color, pure white. 
Back: Of medium length and width — color, white, as free 
as possible from yelloAvish tinge. 
Breast and Body: Breast, full, round, and carried well 
forward: — Body, rather broad, but heaviest forward — color, 
white. 
Wings : Large, and well folded — color, Avliite. 
Tail: Large, full, and somewhat expanded, and carried very 
upright: sickle-feathers, large and well curved; tail-coverts, 
abundant — color, pure white. 
