STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE. 105 
Neck, ....... 5 
Back, ....... 5 
Breast and Body, . . . . . .8 
Wings, ...... 5 
Tail, 5 
Legs, ... ... 5 
100 
BROWN LEGHORNS. 
DISQUALIFICATIONS. 
Comb, twisted, or falling over to either side, in cocks, or 
pricked or duplicate in hens; red ear-lobes; crooked backs; lory 
tails; legs other than yellow; white, or partially white feathers 
in cockerels; black, white, or partially white feathers in hens. 
THE COCK. 
Head: Short and deep, and, in color, a dark, reddish-bay, 
shading into a lighter hue on the neck : — Beak, yellow, with 
a dark stripe down the upper mandible: — Eyes, red, full and 
bright: — Face, bright red, free from wrinkles or folds. 
Comb : Bright red, of medium size, firmly fixed on the head, 
single, straight, deeply serrated (having but five or six points), 
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 winkles :— Wattles, bright red, 
long, thin and pendulous. 
Keck: Long, well arched and well hackled, the hackles be- 
ing a rich golden-bay, striped with black. 
