STANDARD OF PERFECTION 107 
LIGHT BRAHMAS. 
Disqualifications. 
Solid black feathers in back; positive black spots prevalent in web 
of feathers of back, except slight dark or black stripes in saddle of males 
near tail, or in cape of either sex; vulture-like hocks; shanks any color other 
than yellow or reddish-yellow; cocks not weighing nine pounds; hens not 
weighing seven and one-half pounds; cockerels not weighing seven and 
one half pounds; pullets not weighing six pounds. (See general disquali- 
fications.) 
STANDARD WEIGHTS. 
Cock 12 lbs. Hen 9| lbs. 
Cockerel 10 lbs. Pullet 8 lbs. 
COLOR OF MALE. 
Head: Plumage, white. 
Beak: Yellow, with dark stripe down upper mandible. 
Eyes: 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 edge of feather and tapering to a 
point near its extremity; under-color, Avhite, bluish-white or slate. 
Wings: 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 portion 
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; 
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; shank feathers, white; outer toe feathering, white and black; 
if black, laced with white; shanks and toes, yellow. 
