Flitter silver-partridge
Color and pattern male
Head: silver-white
Neck: hackle silver-white, each feather with a narrow, glossy green-black middle-stripe, running almost parallel to the edge ending in a point near the end; the upper-part is separated by a silver-white shaft; front of the neck black.
Back and shoulders: silver-white.
Saddle-hackle: silver-white, preferably without middle-stripes.
Tail: main-feathers black; sickles and coverts glossy green-black.
Wings: front black; wing-bar glossy green-black.
Primary-flights: black with a narrow, white edge on the outer-web.
Secondary-flights: inner-web and tip black, outer-web white forming a white wing-bay when the wing is closed.
Breast, belly and fluff: black predominantly with a narrow silver-white edging.
Down: dark grey.
Serious faults
Insufficient pattern on the breast. Excessively mottled breast. White wing-flights. Yellow tint in the hackles. Broken middle-stripes..
Faults
Serious faults to a lesser extent. Incomplete white wing-bay.
Color and pattern female
Head: silver-white.
Neck: hackle silver-white, each feather with a narrow, glossy green-black middle-stripe, running almost parallel to the edge ending in a point near the end; the upper-part is separated by a silver-white shaft; front of the neck black.
Back, shoulders, wing-coverts, saddle and thighs: even light grey ground-color with a fine, regularly distributed dark-grey peppering and a white shaft; each feather has a sharp, evenly widthwise, glossy silver-white flitter edge.
Primary-flights: dark-grey with a narrow greyish-white edge on the outer-web.
Secondary-flights: outer-web similar to the shoulders; inner-web greyish-white.
Tail: main-feathers dark-grey with light-grey pattern similar to the back.
Breast: salmon-colored, with some flitter permitted.
Fluff and down: dark-grey.
Serious faults
Broad or broken middle-stripes. Rust on wings. Excessively coarse peppering. Insufficient flitter. Yellowish tint in the neck-hackle.
Faults
Serious faults to a lesser extent.
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