Wildcolor
Color and pattern of the male
Head: dark reddish-brown.
Neck: hackle deep orange-red; each feather has a strong glossy black shaft-stripe, running almost parallel to the feather-edge, ends in a point near the tip; vein black; front of the neck black.
Back and shoulders: dark reddish-brown.
Saddle: hackle deep orange-red with shaft-stripe pattern.
Wings: black bow; green-glossy black wing-bar, forming a distinct band across the wing when closed.
Primary-flights: black, except for the outer-vane, which has a brown edge.
Secondary-flights: inner-vane black, outer-vane dark-brown, forming a dark-brown wing-triangle when the wing is closed.
Breast: green-glossy black.
Belly, thighs and rear-part: black.
Down: greyish.
Serious faults
Far too light color in neck- and saddle-hackle. Far too weak shaft-stripe pattern. Broken shaft-stripe pattern.
Faults
The same deviations, but to a lesser extent. Incomplete colored wing-triangle.
Color and pattern of the female
Head: reddish-brown.
Neck: hackle reddish-orange on top, transitioning to dark-orange towards the bottom with a strong black shaft-stripe, running parallel to the feather-edge, ends in a point near the tip; front of neck salmon-colored.
Shoulders: reddish- brown, with a narrow fringe along the feather-edge, against which the black peppering is clustered, creating a crescent-shaped, blurred dark pattern on the feathers; the lighter vein contrasts clearly with the dark feather color.
Back, saddle-cushion and tail-coverts: similar to the shoulders.
Tail: steering-feathers black, except on the top two which are similar to the shoulders.
Wings: bow and wing-coverts similar to the shoulders.
Primary-flights: black.
Secondary-flights: inner-vane black, outer-vane reddish-brown with black peppering.
Breast: deep salmon reddish-brown.
Belly and thighs: slightly less darker then the wing-coverts.
Rear-part: reddish-brown.
Down: reddish-brown, slightly greyish.
Serious faults
Far too light color of the breast. Far too light color of the wing-coverts, shoulder, back, saddle-cushion and tail-coverts. The absence of the crescent-shaped color cluster. Far too light color of the hackle or the absence of the shaft-stripe pattern in the hackle-feathers. Broken shaft-stripe pattern.
Faults
The same deviations, but to a lesser extent.
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