Blue lemon-partridge

Color and pattern male

Head: Orange.

Neck: hacklefrom top to bottom changing from light-orange to light golden-yellow; each feather with a bright-blue 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 bright-blue.

Back, shoulders and wing-arch: warm-orange to warm light-orange.

Saddle-hackle: from light-orange to golden-yellow; each feather with a more or less distinct blue shaft-stripe, absence is not considered a fault; a slightly deeper tint than in the neck-hackle is permitted.

Tail: steering-feather, sickles and coverts bright-blue.

Wings: bow and wing-bar bright-blue.

Primary-flights: bright-blue with a narrow light-brown edge along the outer-vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane bright-blue, outer-vane cream transitioning to light-brown towards the tip, forming when the wing is closed a almost entirely cream wing-triangle with a visible light-brown lace on the upper-side.

Breast, thighs belly and rear-part: bright-blue.

Down: greyish.

Serious faults

Too light or too dark neck-hackle. White in tail and wing-flights. Much markings in breast, thighs and belly. Rusty blue. Much too dark blue.

Faults

Minor deviations in color and pattern. Ground-color too light or too dark. Slightly uneven blue color. Silvery-white wing-triangle.

Color and pattern female

Head: yellow.

Neck: hackle brownish-yellow transitioning gradually to light brownish-yellow from top to bottom, each feather with a bright-blue 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, bow, wing-coverts and saddle: each feather greyish-yellow to greyish-light-yellow with fine evenly distributed blue peppering; slightly light lacing permitted but not desired.

Primary-flights: bright-blue with a narrow greyish-yellow outer-vane.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane similar to the back; inner-vane blue-grey.

Tail: bright-blue steering-feathers except for the upper ones, which like the coverts are greyish-yellow with fine bright-blue peppering.

Breast: salmon light-orange transitioning to yellowish-grey at the thighs, veins salmon light-orange.

Belly, thighs and rear-part: yellowish-gray.

Down: greyish.

Serious faults

Absence of greyish-yellow color on back, shoulders and wing-coverts causing it to appear too blue. Rust on back, shoulders and wing-coverts. Too pale breast-color. Absence of shaft-stripes. Light veins. Too coarse or clumped peppering. Much too dark blue.

Faults

Minor deviations in color and pattern. Too light or too dark color. Slightly uneven blue color. Slightly clumped peppering. Light veins in the breast.