File:The Asiatics; Brahmas, Cochins and Langshans, all varieties, their origin; (1904) (14589904078).jpg

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Title: The Asiatics; Brahmas, Cochins and Langshans, all varieties, their origin;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: Quincy, Ill., The Reliable poultry journal publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ped; in color, black with a rich green sheen in rose, cov-erts and bay. Defects. Loosely folded; bronze bars across feathers;dead or smutty black in color; bluish gray spots in prima-ries or secondaries. For these cut one-half to one and one-half, as in degree, carrying the cuts for gray spots to twopoints before disqualifying for color. For red, white or mixed gold and black in plumage, orfor primaries folded outside of secondaries, condemn andwithhold score card record. TAILFountain shape (a technical term in this connection),it being large, carried prominently upright with the sickles;lesser sickles and large coverts exceedingly long and ribbonlike; tail proper length, closely combed, spread laterallyat a little less angle than the capital letter A. Coverts,termed side hangers by some English breeders, profuse andlong; they with sickles completely enveloping the tail andhanging three to seven inches at the rear of tail proper.Upper tail furnishings all flowing; plumage being a rich
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Ideal Black Langshan Female. Illustrated by the Late Artist I.ee. under theDirection of I. K. Felch. green sheen over black; tail proper coal black; under-colorof coverts black or slate; the highest point of tail being onthe level with the eye. or crown of head. Defects. Carriage, squirrel or drooping to the otherextreme; short and Cochin-like in character; tail propercarried wide like the Brahma: side hangers failing to covertail proper; bronze bars across the feathers; want of greensheen: gray or slate tips to tail proper. Cut one-half to oneand one-half points for these as in degree developed; witheven two points for small Cochin character or bluish gray SI THE ASIATICS. tips in tail proper; cutting one-half to two and one-halffor carriage between upright and full squirrel position ofsame. Positive white beyond that allowed in all black plum-age, to condemn a score card record. SHANKS AND FEET Lower thighs and shanks long, but not crane-like; theformer clothed in coal black clingin

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