STANDARD OF PERFECTION 57 
with a solid, wide, lustrous greenish-black stripe, extending down middle 
of each feather, running nearly parallel with edges of feather and tapering 
to a point near its extremity. 
Wings: Wing- bows, white; primaries, black, with white edging on 
lower edge of lower web; secondaries, lower portion of lower web, white, 
sufficient to secure a white wing-bay, the white extending around the ends 
and lacing upper portion of upper web, this color growing wider in the 
shorter secondaries, the five next to the body being white on the surface 
when wing is folded; remainder of each secondary, black. 
Back: Surface, white, occasional black ticking not a serious defect; 
cape, white, or black and white; under-color, white, bluish-white or slate. 
Tail: Black, except the two top feathers which are edged with white; 
tail-coverts, black, edged with white. 
Breast: Surface and under-color, white; under-color, at juncture 
with body, white or bluish-white. 
Body and Fluff: Body, white, except under wings, where it may 
be white or bluish- white; under-color, white or bluish-white. Fluff, 
white. 
Legs and Toes: Thighs, white; under-color, white or bluish-white. 
Shanks and toes, yellow. 
