Gold-partridge
Color and pattern male
Head: orange-red.
Neck: hackle from top to bottom changing from orange to orange-yellow; each feather with a black shaft-stripe, runs parallel to the outline, ends in a point near the tip, no high demands on the sharpness and the intensity; front of the neck black.
Back, shoulders and wing-bows: carmine-red.
Saddle-hackle: orange to light-orange; each feather with a more or less distinct black shaft-stripe, absence is not considered a fault; a slightly deeper tint than in the neck-hackle is allowed, equality is desired.
Tail: main-feathers black; sickles and coverts glossy green-black.
Wings: front black, wing-bar glossy green-black.
Primary-flights: black with a narrow brown edge along the outer-web.
Secondary-flights: inner-web black, outer-web brown, forming a brown wing-triangle when the wing is closed.
Breast: glossy green-black.
Belly, thighs and fluff: black.
Down: greyish.
Serious faults
White in tail and wing-flights. Much brown in the breast, thighs and belly. Straw-yellow in the lower part of the hackle.
Faults
Minor deviations in color and pattern. Incomplete colored wing-bay.
Color and pattern female
Head: golden-yellow.
Neck: hackle golden-yellow, each feather with a black shaft-stripe, runs parallel to the outline, ends in a point near the tip, no high demands on the sharpness and the intensity; front of the neck similar to the breast.
Back, shoulders, wing-coverts and saddle: each feather golden gray-brown with fine evenly distributed black peppering; as few light-colored veins as possible; slightly light lacing allowed but not desired.
Primary-flights: golden brown with a narrow gray-brown edge along the outer-web.
Secondary-flights: outer-web similar to the back; inner-web blackish-brown.
Tail: black main-feathers except for the upper ones, which like the coverts are golden-brown with fine dark-grey peppering.
Breast: salmon reddish-brown transitioning to ash-brown at the thighs, veins salmon.
Belly, thighs and fluff: ash-brown.
Down: greyish.
Serious faults
Too red o rusty on shoulders. Too pale breast color. Absence of the shaft-stripes. Light veins. Excessive coarse or clumped peppering.
Faults
Minor deviations in color and pattern. Slightly clumped peppering and/or light veins on the breast.
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