Lavender gold-quail
Color and pattern male
Head: lavender ground-color, very narrow edged with straw-yellow.
Neck: large feathers of the hackle entirely lavender; smaller feathers, higher in the hackle towards the throat, lavender with a very narrow isabel-yellow edge and isabel-yellow shaft.
Shoulders and back: each feather has a lavender triangular center with warm isabella-yellow barbs; the back-feathers also with bright isabel-yellow shaft; back-feathers, broad under the hackle, become narrower on the back and longer on the lower back.
Saddle: hackle black with isabel-yellow shaft and broad gold-brown barbs.
Tail: steering-feathers black; sickles lavender; greater-coverts lavender, lesser-coverts lavender with isabella yellow edging.
Wings: bow-feathers lavender with a narrow isabel-yellow edging; greater-coverts isabel-yellow with a lavender spangle at the tip of the feather, forming a lavender wing-bar.
Primariy-flights: lavender.
Secondary-flights: Inner-vane lavender; outer-vane mostly isabel-yellow, tip of the feather lavender; when the wing is closed a wing-triangle is formed.
Breast and front of neck: brilliant isabella yellow overall, each feather has a slightly lighter vein and edging.
Thighs: similar to the breast; the large feathers covering the sides of the breast are lavender with isabel-yellow edging and light isabel-yellow shaft.
Belly: slightly darker than the breast.
Rear-part: light yellow-lavender.
Down: light-lavender.
Head: lavender, very narrow laced with light-straw.
Neck: large feathers of the hackle entirely lavender, sheen increases towards the back; smaller feathers, higher in the hackle towards the throat, lavender with a very narrow light-straw lace and shaft.
Back and shoulders: each feather has a glossy green-black 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 black with bright-gold shaft and broad straw barbs.
Tail: main-feathers black; sickles and glossy green-black, lesser-coverts with gold-brown lacing.
Wings: front black with a narrow dark-brown lacing; greater-coverts gold-brown with a glossy black spangle at the tip of the feather, forming a black wing-bar.
Primariy-flights: black.
Secondary-flights: inner-web black; outer-web mostly cinnamon-brown, tip of the feather black, when the wing is closed a wing-bay is formed.
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 yellowish-brown with gold-yellow lacing and light gold-yellow shaft.
Belly: slightly darker than the breast.
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-parts. Black pattern on the breast. Lack of pattern on the secondary-flights.
Faults
Serious faults to a lesser degree.
Serious faults
Deviant pattern on the neck-hackle. Too light ground-color resulting in a lack of contrast with the lavender feathers. Too pale breast color. Lavender pattern on the breast. Lack of pattern on the secondary-flights.
Faults
The above serious faults occur to a lesser extent. The above serious faults occur to a lesser extent. Vague blurry or lack of pattern at the base of the shoulder-feathers.
Color and pattern female
Head: lavender, very narrow edged with isabel-yellow.
Neck: hackle feathers lavender with a narrow isabel-yellow edging, that widens slightly towards the throat; the lower edge of the hackle is almost entirely lavender.
Shoulders, back, and saddle: lavender with a narrow isabel-yellow side-edge and shaft, the side-edge narrows towards the saddle.
Tail: lavender steering-feathers; coverts lavender with isabel-yellow edging and shaft; lavender support-feathers with isabel-yellow edging and shaft.
Wings: coverts similar to the back; edging broadens towards the wing-flights.
Primary-flights: lavender.
Secondary-flights: inner-vane lavender; outer-vane lavender with a narrow, not sharply defined isabel-yellow at the edge, tip of the feather lavender.
Front of neck, breast, belly and thighs: isabel-yellow, feathers on the sides of the breast, towards the wings and rear-part lavender with gold-yellow edging and shaft.
Rear-part: light yellow-grey.
Down: light-gray.
Serious faults
Deviant pattern on the neck-hackle. Too light ground-color resulting in a lack of contrast with the lavender feathers. Too pale breast color. Lavender pattern on the breast. Lack of pattern in the secondary wing-flights. Too little, too narrow, or too broad isabel-yellow side-edging on back, saddle, tail- and wing-coverts or isabel-yellow shaft pattern too broad. Too much isabel-yellow on the wings.
Faults
The above serious faults occur in minor degrees.
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