Gold blue-quail

Color and pattern male

Head: glossy bright-blue, very narrow laced with gold.

Neck: large feathers of the hackle entirely blue, sheen increases towards the back; smaller feathers, higher in the hackle towards the throat, blue with a very narrow gold lace and gold shaft.

Back and shoulders: each feather has a bright-blue triangular center with warm gold-brown barbs; back-feathers with bright-gold shaft; back-feathers broad under the hackle, become narrower on the back and longer on the lower back.

Saddle-hackle: each feather glossy bright-blue with bright-gold shaft and broad gold-brown barbs.

Tail: main-feathers, sickles and coverts bright-blue, lesser-coverts with gold-brown lacing.

Wings: front bright-blue with a narrow dark-brown lacing; greater-coverts gold-brown with a bright-blue spangle at the tip of the feather, when the wing is closed a wing-bay is formed.

Primariy-flights: bright-blue.

Secondary-flights: inner-web bright-blue; outer-web mostly cinnamon-brown, tip of the feather bright-blue forming a wing-bay when the wing is closed.

Breast and front of neck: overall vivid golden yellow (nanking-yellow), each feather has a slightly lighter lacing and shaft.

Thighs: similar to the breast; the large feathers covering the sides of the breast are very dark gold-yellowbrown with gold-yellow lacing and light gold-yellow shaft.

Belly: slightly darker than the breast.

Fluff: light brown-grey.

Down: grey.

Serious faults

Too broad and shafting on the neck-hackle. Reddish, too pale or brownish breast. Too red in the gold-brown feather-parts. Blue pattern on the breast. Lack of pattern on the secondary-flights.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree. Uneven, much too light or too dark blue. Vague blurry or lack of pattern at the base of the shoulder-feathers.

Color and pattern female

Head: bright blue, very narrow laced with gold.

Neck: hackle feathers bright blue with a narrow gold-brown lacing that widens slightly towards the throat; the lower part of the hackle is almost entirely black, front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders and saddle: blue with narrow gold-brown lacing and a vivid gold shaft, the lacing narrows towards the saddle.

Tail: main-feathers bright blue; support-feathers dark brown-black with gold-brown lacing and gold shaft; coverts very dark-brown with gold-brown lacing and gold shaft.

Wings: coverts similar to the back; lacing broadens towards the wing-flights.

Primary-flights: bright blue.

Secondary-flights: inner-web bright blue; outer-web bright blue with narrow, not sharply defined brown, at the edge, tip of the feather bright blue.

Breast, belly and thighs: gold-yellow (nanking-yellow); feathers on the sides of the breast, towards the wings and fluff, are very dark-brown with gold-yellow lacing and shaft.

Fluff: light greyish-brown.

Down: grey.

Serious faults

Too broad and shafting on the neck-hackle. Reddish, too pale or brownish breast. Too red in the gold-brown feather areas. Blue pattern on the breast. Lack of pattern on the secondary-flights. Too little, too narrow or too broad dark-brown side-lacng on the back, saddle, tail- and wing-coverts or too broad gold-yellow shafts. Too much brown on the wings.