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THE AMERICAN 
DONINKIUE LEGHORNS. 
DISQUALIFICATIONS. 
Comb, twisted, or falling over to either side, in cocks, or pricked 
or duplicate in hens; red ear-lobes; crooked backs; ivry tails; 
legs other than yellow; reddish or brassy feathers in the hackles 
or saddles of cocks, or in the necks of hens. 
THE COCK. 
Head: Short and deep, the phimage a slaty-blue ground- 
color, penciled across each feather with dark bars: — Beak, 
]-ather long and stout, in color, yellow, and as free as possible 
from any dark shade: — Eyes, red, full and bright: — Face, red, 
and free from wrinkles or folds. 
Comb : Eed, of medium size, firmly fixed on the head, erect, 
straight, deeply serrated (having but five or six points), ex- 
tending 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 wrinldes: — Wattles, bright red, 
long, thin and pendulous. 
Neck: Long, well arched and well hackled; ground-color, a 
light slatj^-blue, each feather penciled across with dark bars, 
and free from white, black, or red feathers. 
Back: Of medium length and breadth, the plumage a light 
slaty-blue, in ground color, each feather distinctly penciled 
across with dark bars, and free from red or brassy feathers. 
Breast and Body: Breast, full, round, and carried well for- 
ward: — Body, rather broad, and heaviest forward; the general 
plumage a light slaty-blue, in ground color, each feather being 
distinctly penciled across with dark bars. 
