The wattles must be small if present. Better birds have no wattles. The comb is an indented walnut comb, firm and compact on the head, but not small as in the Red-Shouldered Yokohama.

The head forms I have seen have been pronoucedly rounded in the Scarlet Bamboo, but longer in the Silver Duckwings. These Silver Duckwings are the results of outcrosses undertaken by Knut Roeder in order to save the line he brought in from Japan by wayof hatching eggs. Only one rooster survived. He crossed him with one of his very fine Yokohamas, the results were then crossed back to the Silver Minohiki with superb results.

If one studies the diverese images of the Minohiki I have on this website, one can see this difference. Note in the illustrations here, the Scarlet Bamboos have expressly rounded heads. The Silvers on this page are rather normal, not too long, in form. The presence of wattles IS NOT a disqualification! The form and flow of the animal, however, is more elegant in the examples I've seen without wattles. It were as though a flowing line starts at the tip of the beak and moves both down the neck, chest and dropped wing and down the back of the head, neck, back and to the tip of the tail.