STANDARD OF PERFECTION 165 
SHAPE OF FEMALE. 
Head: Of medium size. 
Beak: Of medium length, stout, well curved. 
Eyes: Prominent. 
Comb: Silver-Gray and Colored Dorkings, single, similar to that 
of male, but much smaller, and falling over to one side. White Dorkings, 
rose, similar to that of male, but much smaller. 
Wattles and Ear-Lobes: Wattles, uniform, rather broad, well 
rounded. Ear-lobes, of medium size. 
Neck: Rather short, arched; hackle, full and abundant, flowing over 
shoulders, tapering to head. 
Wings: Large, well folded against body. 
Back: Broad, long, straight, declining slightly to tail. 
Tail: Well developed: main feathers broad, close together, carried 
at an angle of forty degrees from the horizontal. 
Breast: Broad, deep, well rounded, carried forward. 
Body and Fluff: Body, long, broad, deep, with long, low-set keel. 
Fluff, smooth in surface, moderately developed. 
Legs and Toes: Thighs, large, short, well meated; shanks, short, 
stout, round in bone. Toes, five upon each foot, front and fifth toes, 
moderately long and smooth, fifth toe, well separated from fourth and 
directly over it and rising on a slight incline from base to point. Shanks 
below hock, and toes, free from feathers and down. 
WHITE DORKINGS. 
D isqu alifica t ion s. 
Feathers other than white in any part of plumage; shanks other than 
white or flesh color; absence of fifth toe. (See general disqualifications.) 
STANDARD WEIGHTS. 
Cock 7h lbs. Hen 6 lbs. 
Cockerel 6h lbs. Pullet 5 lbs 
COLOR OF MALE AND FEMALE. 
Beak: White. 
Eyes: Reddish-bay. 
Comb, Face, Wattles and Ear-Lobes : Red. 
Legs and Toes: White. 
Plumage: Web, fluff and quills of feathers in all sections, pure white. 
