White-quail

Color and pattern male

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

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

Back and shoulders: each feather has a bright creamy-white 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 bright creamy-white with gold shaft and broad gold-brown barbs.

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

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

Primariy-flights: bright creamy-white.

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

Breast and front of neck: overall vivid gold-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 interspersed with creamy-white.

Down: creamy-white.

Serious faults:

Too broad lacing 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: bright creamy-white, very narrow laced with gold.

Neck: hackle feathers bright creamy-white with a narrow golden-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: bright creamy-white, with a narrow dark-brown lacing and a brilliant gold-yellow shaft, the lacing narrows towards the saddle.

Tail: main-feathers bright creamy-white; support-feathers and coverts bright creamy white with gold-brown lacing and gold shaft.

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

Primary-flights: bright creamy-white.

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

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

Fluff: light-brown interspersed with creamy-white.

Down: creamy-white.

Serious faults

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