Flitter gold-partridge

Color and pattern of the male

Head: orange-red.

Neck: hackle golden, each feather with a narrow mingled black middle-stripe, running almost parallel to the edge ending in a point near the end; the upper-part is separated by a golden shaft; front of the neck black.

Back, shoulders and wing-bows: golden-red.

Saddle-hackle: goldish, preferably without middle-stripes.

Wings: front black; wing-bar glossy green-black.

Primary-flights: black with a narrow brown edge on the outer-web.

Secondary-flights: inner-web and tip black, outer-web brown forming a brown wing-bay when the wing is closed.

Tail: main-feathers black; sickles and coverts glossy green-black.

Breast, belly and fluff: black predominantly with a narrow light-brown edging.

Thighs: preferably black.

Down: dark-grey.

Serious faults

Neck-hackle with broken middle-stripe and too brown or too yellow. Too dark on wings. Too little pattern on breast and thighs. Almost mottled breast. White in wing-flights.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser extent. Incomplete colored wing-bay.

Color and pattern of the female

Head: orange-reddish brown.

Neck: hackle golden, each feather with a narrow mingled black middle-stripe, running parallel to the edge ending in a point near the end; the upper-part is separated by a golden vein; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders, wing-coverts, saddle and thighs: even yellow-brown ground-color with a fine, regularly distributed black peppering and a yellow-white shaft; each feather has a sharp, evenly widthwise, shiny gold flitter edge.

Primary-flights: black-brown with a narrow grey-brown edge on the outer-web.

Secondary-flights: outer-web similar to the shoulders; inner-web black-brown.

Tail: main-feathers black with yellow-brown similar to the back.

Breast: salmon-colored to brownish-red, some flitter permitted.

Fluff and down: brownish ash-grey.

Serious faults

Broad or broken neck-hackle pattern. Excessive rust on wings. Coarse peppering or too dark a ground-color on the back and wing-flights. Too light flitter-color. Insufficient flitter.