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SUPPORTING COLOR PIGEONS IN CALIFORNIA, USA AND THE WORLD SINCE 1972
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Standard for Nuremberg and Mealy Larks
Translated from 1954 German standard by H. P. Macklin and updated to recent German standard

Nuremberg Lark

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Origin:

Franken, mainly Nuremberg and surrounding territory.
General Impression:
 A slender but strong field pigeon
Race features:
  
Head:
 Slightly rounded with suitably narrow flat forehead. Smooth headed.
Eyes:
 Yellow, reddish or black. Reddish cere.
Beak:
 Horn colored.
Throat
 Round and Deeply cut out.
Neck:
 Medium long and slender.
Breast:
 Slight rounded.
Back:
 Slight tapering downward.
Wings:
 Long and tightly closed.
Tail:
 A bit longer than wing tips.
Legs and feet:
 Medium high, clean legged and lively red.
 
Colors:
 Checks (Larked) and Mealy, barred or barless.
   
Color and Design:

(a). Larked. Head, front of neck, back of neck, breast a high yellow, the more fiery the better; fading out as it nears the shanks. The ground color of the wing shields and the flights (when closed) are cream-white, the whiter the better. The shield has black checks, the deepest black possible. It is NOT enough that the checks be a brown black or black gray. These checks must be as uniform and precise as possible. The saddle, as a rule, is somewhat fuller designed, but the design must not run together or be indistinct. One designates, according to these directions, as “thoroughly marked”. The wing bars are the same color deepness as the checks. The belly is cream-white and must be sharply bordered from the tail. The tail is blue-gray with black bar.
(b). Mealy. A special variety of the Lark is the Nuremberg Mealy. It is like the Lark in all parts except the Mealy has narrower, unbroken (not jagged) bars. The more narrow these wing bars the better. Also the slightest shadow of a third bar is forbidden. The wing shield must be perfectly clear in color. This variety also come without bars.
Bad Faults:
 a). Larked: Beak too dark. Blue grey ears and cheeks. Throat or back of neck showing blue-gray color. Brownish, unclear wing design. Dark flights.
(b). Mealy: (barred or barless). Beak too dark. Blue-gray color in ears, cheeks, throat or back of neck. Blue-gray or yellowish wing shields and belly. Bars too wide, Third bar showing or bars brownish in color.
Order of evaluation:
 General impression - form - color and pattern - head form, eye and cere color.
Band size:
 8