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The Australasian Book of Poultry. 
Rinx of Neck. — Perfectly white and clean cut, dividing the green colour of the upper part of the neck 
from the breast colour. This ring of white must not quite encircle the neck, a small space being broken at 
the back. 
Breast. — Rich claret colour, extending well underneath the body, distinct from the body colour, and 
free from white pencilling. 
Flanks. — Bluish French-grey ground colour, distinctly pencilled with lustrous black, perfectly free from 
white or brown markings. 
Stern. — Bluish French-grey ground colour, boldly pencilled with black close up to the vent, finishing in 
an indistinct curved line (perfectly free from white) followed by rich black feathers right up to the tail-coverts. 
Tail Covcrls. — Slaty-black with brownish tinge, with two or three glossy greenish-black feathers curved 
upward and forward in the centre. 
Back and Rump. — Lustrous greenish-black from between the shoulders to the rump. 
Large JVuii^-Corri-is. — Pale clear grey. 
Small Wing-Coverts. — French-grey, minutely pencilled with black. 
Pinion-Coverts. — Dark grey or slaty-black. 
Wing-Bars. — Two on each wing, composed of two lines of white, one in the centre of the smaller wing- 
coverts, the other forming a line at the base of the flight-coverts. These latter feathers should be a slaty- 
black on the upper side of the quill, and a lustrous blue on the lower side. 
Wing-Flights. — Slaty-black with brownish tinge, quite free from white. 
Legs and Feet. — Bright red. 
A Drake perfect in shape, size, carriage, colour, beak, legs and feet, and in perfect health and condition, 
to count ICO points. 
Points to ue Deducted for Defects. 
Bad Shaped Head and Bill ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 
„ Coloured Bill 5 
Badly Shaped Neck ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 
Badly Formed or Broken ring of white on Neck ... ... ... 5 
Deficiency in Colour of Breast or presence of Pencilling ... ... ... 10 
Want of Flank and Stern Pencillings... ... ... ... .. ... 10 
Tail-coverts deficient in Colour ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 
Want of Soundness and richness of Colour on Back and Rump ... ... 5 
Indistinct Wing-bars ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 
Want of Size ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 20 
,, Symmetry ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 
Bad Coloured Legs and Feet ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 
Want of Condition ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 
100 
Disqualifications. 
Crooked back, wry tail, or any other evident sign of weakness or deformity, white flight feathers, absence 
of ring of white feathers on neck, black saddle on the head, beak leaden colour, wing primaries twisted, 
absence of wing-bars, broken down in stern. 
General Characteristics of the Duck. 
Head, Eye, Bill, Legs and Feet similar to the Drake in shape ; Breast., deep and full ; Size, large as 
possible, a well matured Duck weighing from 8 to 10 lbs. ; Body, long, broad and square, massive in appear- 
ance every way, very deep in keel, square in carriage from stem to stern, but clear of the ground, heavy, but 
not down in stern. 
