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APPENDIX. 
Tail Coverts — Rich metallic green black, the lesser ones 
silvered on the edge. 
Legs — White, with a flesh-coloured tinge betwixt the 
scales. 
COLOUR or HEN. 
i/eac^ — Silvery or ashy grey. 
Corah, Face, and Wattles — Bright red. 
Neck — Silvery white, striped with black. 
Breast — Salmon red, shading off to grey towards the 
thighs. 
Back and Shoidder Coverts — Silvery or slaty grey, free 
from dark bars or mai’ks across the feathers, shaft of 
feathers white. 
Wing Bov) — Silvery or slaty grey, shaft of feathers 
white. Any tendency to red on the wings is highly 
objectionable. 
Coverts and Flights— grey. 
Tail— 'Dark grey, inside approaching black. 
Thighs — Ashy grey. 
Legs — White, with a flesh-coloured tinge betwixt the 
scales. 
Points in Silver Grey Dorkings. 
Size ....... 3 
Colour ....... 3 
Head and Comb . . . . .2 
Legs, Feet, and Toes . . . . 2 
Symmetry ...... 3 
Condition ...... 2 
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Disqualifications . 
Birds without the fifth toe, or with crooked backs, 
wry tails, combs not uniform in the pen, white in cock’s 
breast or tail, legs of any colour except white. 
COLOURED DORKINGS. 
The colour in these not material, providing the birds 
match in the pen. 
Points in Coloured Dorkmgs. 
Size ........ 5 
Head and Comb . . . . .2 
Legs, Feet, and Toes .... 2 
Symmetry ...... 4 
Condition . . .... 2 
15 
Disqualifications. 
Birds without the fifth toe, or with crooked backs, 
wry tails, combs not matching in the pen, legs of any 
other colour except white. 
WHITE DORKINGS. 
Conib, Face, and Wattles — Rich red. 
The whole of the plumage in both cock and hen pure 
white, the more free from yellov/- tinge the better. 
Legs — White. 
Points in White Dorkings. 
Size ....... 4 
Purity of White Plumage . . .2 
Head and Comb . . , , .2 
Legs, Feet, and Toes . ... 2 
Symmetry .... . . 3 
Condition ...... 2 
15 
Disqualifications, 
Birds without the fifth toe, or "with crooked backs 
or wry tails, combs not uniform in the pen, coloured 
feathers in any part of the plumage. 
SPANISH. 
GENERAL SHAPE. 
THE COCK. 
Beak — Dark horn colour, rather long and stout. 
Comb — Bright red, large, single, stiff, erect, straight, 
free from twists in front or falling over to either side 
at the back, deeply serrated, rising from the beak 
betwixt the fore part of the nostrils, and extending in 
an arched form over the back of the head, free from 
excrescences or side-sprigs, and not of too great 
thickness at the edge. 
Head — Long, broad, and deep-sided. 
Eyes — Large, the sight perfectly free, and not ob- 
structed by the white. 
Face — Pure opaque white, long and deep, the greater 
breadth of surface the better, providing it is smooth, 
free from wrinkles, and the sight not obstructed, ris- 
ing well over the eye towards the comb in an arched 
form, extending towards the back of the head, and 
also to the base of the beak, covering the cheeks, and 
joining the ear-lobes and wattles. 
Ear-lobes — Pure opaque white, very large and pendent, 
rather thin, smooth, well expanded and free from folds 
or wrinkles, extending well on each side of the neck, 
hanging down very low, not pointed, but regularly 
rounded in the lower part, and meeting in front, be- 
hind the wattles. 
Wattles — Bright red ; very long, thin, ribbon-like, and 
pendulous 5 the inside of the upper part, and skin 
betwixt, white. 
Neck — Long, well hackled. 
Breast — Round, full, and prominent. 
Back — Slanting down to the tail. 
Body — Wedge-shaped, narrowing to the tail. 
Wings — Large, carried well up to the body. 
Tail — Large, expanded and rather upright, but not 
carried over the back, or squirrel-tailed. 
Sickle Feathers — Large and well curved. 
Thighs — Long and slender. 
Legs — Long, dark leaden blue, or blue. 
Plumage — Rich glossy black, having a metallic green 
lustre on the hackle, back, wings, saddle, tail coverts, 
and sickle feathers. 
Carriage — Upright and striking. 
Disqualifications in Spanish Cocks. 
Comb — Falling over to one side, or twisted in front 
over the nostrils. 
Face — So puffy as to obstruct the sight ; decided red 
mark above the eye. 
Plumage — Of any other colour except black, or metallic 
green black. 
Legs — Of any other colour except dark leaden blue, or 
blue. 
THE HEN. 
Beak — Dark horn colour, long. 
Comb — Glossy bright red, large, single, serrated, droop- 
ing over to one side of the face, free from side-sprigs 
or duplicature. 
Head — Long and deep. 
Eye — Large. 
Face — Pure opaque white, smooth and free from wrinkles, 
with great breadth of surface, rising well over the 
eye in an arched form, extending well towards the 
back of the head, and also to the beak, covering the 
cheek, and joining the ear-lobes and wattles. 
Ear-lobe — Pure opaque white, large, pendent, smooth, 
well expanded, free from wrinkles, regularly rounded 
on the lower edge. 
Wattles — Bright red, thin, pendent, and rounded on 
the lower edge. 
Neck— Don^ and graceful. 
Breast — Round and full. 
Back — Slanting down to the tail. 
