80 AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION 
SILVER PENCILED WYANDOTTES. 
Disqualifications. 
Ear-lobes more than one-quarter positive enamel white; shanks 
other than yellow, or dusky yellow. (See general disqualifications.) 
COLOR OF MALE. 
Head: Plumage, silvery white. 
Beak: Yellow, or dusky yellow. 
Eyes : Bay, or reddish-bay. 
Comb, Face, Wattles and Ear- Lobes: Bright red. 
Neck: Silvery white, with a lustrous greenish-black stripe extending 
down each feather, running nearly parallel with edges of feather and taper- 
ing to a point near its extremity; under-color, slate or bluish-white. 
Wings: Primaries, black, excepting a narrow edging of white on 
lower edge of web; secondaries, black except lower half of lower web which 
should be white, except near end of feather, at which point the white ter- 
minates abruptly, leaving end of feather black; coverts, lustrous greenish- 
black, forming a well defined bar of this color across wing when folded; 
bows, silvery white. 
Back: Silvery white, free from brown; saddle, silvery white, with a 
black stripe in each feather same as hackle; under-color, slate. 
Tail: Black; sickles and coverts, lustrous greenish- black; lesser 
coverts, lustrous greenish-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, back of scales, not a defect. 
COLOR OF FEMALE. 
Head: Plumage, silvery gray. 
Beak: Yellow, or dusky yellow. 
Eyes: Bay, or 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 edging of gray penciling on 
lower web; secondaries, upper web, black; lower web, steel-gray, with 
distinct dark penciling extending around outer end of feather; shoulder 
and wing coverts, steel-gray, with distinct dark penciling, outlines of 
which conform to shape of feather; under-color, slate. 
