Gold lavender-quail

Color and pattern male

Head: lavender, very narrow laced with light-straw.

Neck: large feathers of the hackle entirely lavender, smaller feathers, higher in the hackle towards the throat, lavender with a very narrow straw lace and shaft.

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

Saddle-hackle: each feather lavender with straw shaft and broad straw barbs.

Tail: main-feathers, sickles and coverts lavender, lesser-coverts with straw lacing.

Wings: front lavender with a narrow straw lacing; greater-coverts straw with a lavender spangle at the tip of the feather, forming a lavender wing-bar.

Primariy-flights: lavender.

Secondary-flights: inner-web lavender; outer-web mostly straw, tip of the feather lavender, when the wing is closed a wing-bay is formed.

Breast and front of neck: warm straw, each feather has a slightly lighter lacing and shaft.

Thighs: similar to the breast; the large feathers covering the sides of the breast are lavender with straw lacing and light-straw shaft.

Belly: slightly darker than the breast.

Fluff: light straw-lavender.

Down: light-grey.

Serious faults

Too broad lacing and shafting on the neck-hackle. Too pale breast color. Lavender pattern on the breast. Lack of pattern on the secondary-flights. Too light ground-color resulting in a lack of contrast with the lavender feathers.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree. Vague blurry or lack of pattern at the base of the shoulder-feathers.

Color and pattern female

Head: lavender, very narrow laced with straw.

Neck: hackle feathers lavender with a narrow straw lacing that widens slightly towards the throat; the lower part of the hackle is almost entirely lavender, front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders and saddle: lavender, with a narrow straw lacing and shaft, the lacing narrows towards the saddle.

Tail: main-feathers lavender; support-feathers and coverts lavender with straw lacing and shaft.

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

Primary-flights: lavender.

Secondary-flights: inner-web lavender; outer-web very lavender with narrow, not sharply defined, straw at the edge, tip of the feather lavender.

Breast, belly and thighs: straw; each feather has a slightly lighter lacing and shaft; feathers on the sides of the breast, towards the wings and fluff, are lavender with straw lacing and shaft.

Fluff: light straw-lavender.

Down: light-grey.

Serious faults

Too broad and shafting on the neck-hackle. Too pale breast color. Lavender pattern on the breast. Too light ground-color resulting in a lack of contrast with the lavender feathers. Too little, too narrow or too broad straw side-lacng on the back, saddle, tail- and wing-coverts or too broad straw shafts. Too much straw on the wings. Lack of pattern on the secondary-flights.