Lemon white-quail

Color and pattern male

Head: white, very narrow laced with lemon.

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

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

Saddle-hackle: each feather hite with lemon shaft and broad lemon-yellow barbs.

Tail: main-feathers, sickles and coverts white, lesser-coverts with lemon lacing.

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

Primariy-flights: white.

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

Breast and front of neck: overall vivid lemon, each feather has a slightly lighter lacing and shaft.

Thighs: similar to the breast; the large feathers covering the sides of the breast are lemon with slightly lighter edging and shaft.

Belly: slightly darker than the breast.

Fluff: lemon-yellow interspersed with white.

Down: white.

Serious faults:

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

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: white, very narrow laced with lemon.

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

Back, shoulders and saddle: white, with a narrow lemon lacing and a vivid yellow shaft, the lacing narrows towards the saddle.

Tail: main-feathers white; support-feathers and coverts white with lemon lacing and yellow shaft.

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

Primary-flights: white.

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

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

Fluff: lemon-yellow interspersed with white.

Down: white.

Serious faults

Too broad and shafting on the neck-hackle Too pale or brownish breast. Too dark in the lemon feather areas. Lack of pattern on the secondary-flights. White pattern on the breast. Too little, too narrow or too broad lemon lacing on the back, saddle, tail- and wing-coverts or too broad yellow shafts. Too much lemon on the wings.