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HEAD (5 pts.): Small to medium head with refined shape. Gracefully rising curve, but no frontal bulge. Rounded rather than angular with slight flatness permitted on top.
EYE AND EYE CERE (5 pts.): The "white" (pearl to gravel) type. Cere should be flesh color.
TOE NAILS (5 pts.): Flesh colored.
NECK (5 pts.): Medium short, slightly tapered. Broad at shoulder, narrower at head. Tight and clean in front, no gullet.
BEAK AND WATTLE (5 pts.): Beak should be flesh colored. Wattle is smooth and flesh colored.
FLIGHTS AND TAIL (10 pts.): Flight feathers closely set, broad in web and carried so that tips almost meet over, and about ½ inch from end of tail, which should be short, closely folded, and slightly tapering.
BODY, CARRIAGE, AND CONFORMATION (18 pts.): Medium with straight keel, wedge-shaped, erect upstanding appearance showing a capability of great activity. Head up and slightly back.
LEGS (2 pts.): Short, red, free of feathers. Fairly wide set, clean and bright.
CONDITION (15 pts.): Must be in perfect health, free from any deformity and in a generally hard and firm condition. Vigorous, clean and alert. Close and perfect in feathering. Firmly muscled. Light in weight for size.
COLOR, MARKINGS, AND PATTERN (20 pts.): In this sporting breed, less importance is attached to color in this category. Head white with a line in separation around neck running in a clean unbroken line 1/8" to 3/16" below eye and beak, and rising with a gradual curve to back of skull; the neck to breast bone, shoulders, back, and inner (secondary) flights to be colored; the ten outer (primary) flights on both sides to be white; also the tail and under part of the body from the breast bone and thighs; more than 12 white flights on either side, or less than seven to disqualify baldheads for competition in this class.
WINGS (5 pts.): Held close to body and above tail. Wing butts should be covered and well tucked in at shoulders. Feathers should roll over back without "sail".
EXPRESSION (5 pts.): Smartness, eagerness, but not wildness should be dominant with no suggestion of dull lack of interest.
CAPS (crested receive 5 additional pts.): Broad and round, or crown shaped; should reach from ear to ear, just fringing but not intruding into the white crown.
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FAULTS:
PRIMARY FEATHERS: 7 to 10. May have 2 secondaries in order. 10 primaries perfect.