STANDARD OF PERFECTION 39 
Wattles and Ear-Lobes: Wattles, small, well rounded, equal in 
length, fine in texture. Ear-lobes, oblong in shape, smooth. 
Neck: Medium in length, nicely curved and tapering to head, where 
it is comparatively small; hackle, moderately full, flowing well over the 
shoulders with no apparent break at juncture of neck and back. 
Wings: Of medium size, well folded; wing-fronts, well covered by 
the breast feathers. 
Back: Rather long, broad its entire length, flat at shoulders, rising 
with a slightly concave incline to tail. 
Tail: Of medium length, fairly well spread, carried at an angle of 
thirty-five degrees from the horizontal, forming no apparent angle with 
the back; tail -coverts, well developed. 
Breast: Broad, moderately deep, well rounded. 
Body and Fluff: Body, rather long, moderately deep, full; keel 
bone, rather long, straight from front to rear and extending well forward, 
connected with the breast so 1 as to make no break in outline. Fluff, full, 
of medium length. 
Legs and Toes: Thighs, of medium size and length, well covered 
with soft feathers. Shanks, of medium length, set well apart, stout and 
smooth. Toes, of medium size and length, straight, well spread. Shanks 
and toes free from feathers, stubs or down. 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 
Disqualifications. 
Positive white in ear-lobes; red in any part of plumage; two or more 
solid black primaries, secondaries or main tail feathers; shanks other 
than yellow, with due allowances for fading with age, dark spots not to 
disqualify. (See general disqualifications.) 
COLOR OF MALE AND FEMALE. 
Beak: Yellow. 
Eyes: Reddish-bay. 
Comb, Face, Wattles and Ear-Lobes: Bright red. 
Shanks and Toes: Yellow; red showing at outside of shanks back 
of scales, not a defect in males. 
Plumage: Grayish- white, each feather crossed by regular, narrow, 
parallel, sharply-defined, dark bars that stop short of positive black; free 
from shafting, brownish tinge or metallic sheen; the light and dark bars 
to be of equal width and to extend throughout the length of the feathers 
in all sections of the fowl, each feather on females ending with a narrow, 
dark tip, the combination of overlapping feathers giving the plumage a 
bluish appearance. 
