56 AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION 
COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 
Disqualifications. 
Positive white in ear-lobes; shanks other than yellow. (See general 
disqualifications.) 
COLOR OF MALE. 
Head: Plumage, white. 
Beak: Yellow, with dark stripe down upper mandible. 
Eyes: Bay, or reddish-bay. 
Comb, Face, Wattles and Ear- Lobes: Bright red. 
Neck: Plumage, other than hackle, white; hackle, web white, with 
solid, lustrous greenish-black stripe extending from fluff down middle of 
each feather, running nearly parallel with edges of feather and tapering 
to a point near its extremity. Under-color, white, bluish-white or slate. 
Wings : Wing- bows, white, except fronts which may be partly black ; 
primaries, black, with white edging on lower edge of lower web; second- 
aries, lower portion of lower web white, sufficient to secure a white wing- 
bay, the white extending around ends of feathers and lacing upper por- 
tion of upper web, this color growing wider in the shorter secondaries, 
the five next to the body being white on surface when wing is folded; 
remainder of each secondary, black. 
Back: Surface color, white; cape, black and white; saddle, white, 
with occasional feathers striped with black; under-color, either white, 
bluish-white or slate. 
Tail: Black, the curling feathers underneath, white, or black and 
white; sickles and coverts, lustrous greenish-black; lesser coverts, lustrous 
greenish-black, edged with white. 
Breast: Surface and under-color, white; under-color at juncture 
with body, white, bluish white or slate. 
Body and Fluff: Body, white, except under wings where it may 
be white, bluish- white or slate; under-color, white or bluish- white. Fluff, 
white; under-color, white or bluish- white. 
Legs and Toes: Thighs, surface color, white; under-color, white 
or bluish-white. Shanks and toes, yellow; red showing at outer sides 
back of scales not a defect. 
COLOR OF FEMALE. 
Head: Plumage, white. 
Beak: Yellow, or yellow with dark stripe down the upper mandible. 
Eyes: Bay, or reddish-bay. 
Comb, Face, Wattles and Ear-Lobes: Bright red. 
Neck: Hackle, beginning at juncture of head with neck, web, white, 
