STANDARD OF PERFECTION 197 
COLOR OF FEMALE. 
Head: Plumage, white. 
Beak: Dark horn. 
Eyes: Black, or brown. 
Comb, Face and Wattles: Bright red. 
Ear-Lobes: White. 
Neck: White, each feather ending with an elongated, small, black 
spangle. 
Wings: Bows, silvery white, distinctly spangled with black; pri- 
maries, white, each feather ending with black at end; secondaries, clear, 
silvery white, each feather ending with a lustrous, black, crescent-shaped 
spangle, gradually increasing into a round-shaped spangle as it approaches 
the back; coverts, silvery white, each feather ending with a large, black 
spangle, forming two distinct parallel bars across wings. 
Back: Silvery white, each feather ending with a large, black spangle. 
Tail: White, each feather ending with a large, black spangle; coverts, 
white on the outside, each feather ending with a black spangle. 
Breast: Clear, silvery white, each feather ending with a black 
spangle, the spangle being proportionate to size of feather. 
Body and Fluff: Body, clear, silver}- white, each feather ending 
■with a black spangle, the spangle being proportionate to size of feather. 
Fluff, slate, tinged with white. 
Legs and Toes: Thighs, silvery white, each feather ending with a 
black spangle. Shanks and toes, leaden-blue. 
Under-Color: Slate. 
Note. In all sections where the word "spangle" appears, when 
shape is not otherwise described, lead " edges of spangle following the 
web of feather and meeting at shaft." 
GOLDEN PENCILED HAMBURGS. 
D isq ualificat ions. 
Red in ear-lobes covering one-third of the surface; breast of hen not 
penciled; shanks other than leaden-blue, except the natural fading from 
age; hen-feathered male. (See general disqualifications.) 
COLOR OF MALE. 
Head: Plumage, rich, bright bay. 
Beak: Dark horn. 
Eyes: Reddish-bay. 
Comb, Face and Wattles: Bright red. 
Ear-Lobes: White. 
