. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor ... y of thewing (a weak point) is to be as free from mossiness and assharply pencilled as possible. Black CocksThe size, feather and lobe the most ample of all varieties ;lobes, large, smooth, round, thick, witliout folds, creases,cording, splashes, red edges, or blisters, and kid-like in texture,no white running from it into the face at all, nor anywhereapparent on face, which must be uniformly the brightest coralred; colour of feathers, brightest green sheen, though in thismatter seldom approaching that to be seen in the h
. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor ... y of thewing (a weak point) is to be as free from mossiness and assharply pencilled as possible. Black CocksThe size, feather and lobe the most ample of all varieties ;lobes, large, smooth, round, thick, witliout folds, creases,cording, splashes, red edges, or blisters, and kid-like in texture,no white running from it into the face at all, nor anywhereapparent on face, which must be uniformly the brightest coralred; colour of feathers, brightest green sheen, though in thismatter seldom approaching that to be seen in the hens. Black Hens Size, largest; shape, roundest and fullest; colour, brightestbeetle, almost grass-green ; lobes, immaculately white, but notso large as in the cocks, which latter will run to the size of aflorin or larger. Note.—White faces to be passed in any variety ; squirrel-tailor wry-tail a serious drawback. If the bird has the power torest its tail on either side at will, bringing tlie tail over from oneside to the other, it should not be accounted BRITISH BREEDS OF POULTRY 321 Standards op Excellencescales op points HEAr IIAHKINOS s VARIETY n1 o ?§< ^-^ J (H s S s <ln i °i S8| Gold Spangled cock. 10 5 6 10 15 5 15 5 6 5 10 10 100 Gold Sp&ngled hen . 10 5 5 10 15 6 15 5 5 5 10 10 100 Silver Spangled cock 10 10 5 10 10 15 1 H H Si 10 10 100 Silver Spangled hen 10 5 5 15 15 10 10 8 34 31 10 10 100 Gold Pencilled cock 10 10 5 — — 35 — so 10 100 Gold Pencilled hen. 10 6 6 6 16 15 15 lo 10 10 100 Silver Pencilled cock 1010 105 55 6 15 351,) 16 — — 8010 1010 100 Silver Pencilled hen 10 100 Black cock 15 15 15 — — 15 — — — — 20 phisLegs 5 15 100 Black hen 15 15 15 5 ~ ~ 30 plusLegs 5 15 100 Passed by Committee, 1903. Note.—In all varieties except Blacks, comb, face, symmetry, andcondition are the same. In Pencilled cocks, 90 per cent, for head,colour, tail. THE REDCAP The Redcap is the utiKty Gold Spangled Hamburghwith coarser and l
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