48 AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION 
SILVER PENCILED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 
Disqualifications. 
Positive white in ear-lobes; shanks and toes other than yellow or 
dusky yellow. 
COLOR OF MALE. 
Head : Plumage, silvery white. 
Beak: Yellow, or dusky yellow. 
Eyes: Reddish-bay. 
Comb, Face, Wattles and Ear-Lobes: Bright red. 
Neck: Silvery white, with a lustrous, greenish-black stripe extend- 
ing down each feather, and running nearly parallel with edges of feather, 
and tapering to a point near its extremity; under-color, slate or bluish- 
white. 
Wings: Wing-bows, silvery white; primaries, black, excepting a 
narrow edging of white on lower edge of lower web; secondaries, black, 
except lower half of lower web, which should be white, except near end 
of feathers, at which point the white terminates abruptly leaving the end 
of the feathers black; wing-coverts, lustrous greenish-black, forming a 
well-defined bar of this color across wing when folded. 
Back: Silvery white, free from brown; saddle, silvery white, with a 
black stripe in each feather, same as hackle; under-color, slate or bluish- 
white. 
Tail: Black; sickles, lustrous greenish-black; coverts, lustrous green- 
ish-black, edged with white. 
Breast: Black; under-color, slate or bluish- white. 
Body and Fluff: Body, black; under-color, slate or bluish- white. 
Fluff, black, slightly tinged with gray. 
Legs and Toes: Thighs, black. Shanks and toes, yellow, or dusky 
yellow; red showing at outer sides of shanks back of scales, not a defect. 
COLOR OF FEMALE. 
Head: Plumage, silvery gray. 
Beak: Yellow, or dusky yellow. 
Eyes: Reddish-bay. 
Comb, Face, Wattles and Ear-Lobes: Bright red. 
Neck: Silvery white, with broad black stripe running nearly parallel 
with edges and extending down middle of each feather, tapering to a point 
near its extremity and free from white shaft; under-color, slate. 
Wings: Primaries, black, with narrow edge of steel-gray penciling 
on lower web; secondaries, upper web black, lower web gray, with distinct 
dark penciling extending around outer edge of feather; shoulder and wing- 
