Blue quail

Color and pattern male

Head: glossy bright-blue ground-color, very narrow edged with gold.

Neck: large feathers of the hackle are entirely blue, sheen increases towards the back; smaller feathers higher in the hackle towards the throat, are blue with a very narrow gold edge and gold shaft.

Shoulders and back: each feather has a bright-blue triangular center with warm gold-brown barbs; back-feathers with bright-gold shaft; back-feathers broad under the hackle, become narrower towards the back and longer towards the lower back.

Saddle: hackle bright-blue with bright-gold shaft and broad gold-brown barbs.

Tail: steering-feathers bright-blue; sickles bright-blue; greater-coverts bright-blue, lesser-covertsbright-blue with gold-brown edging.

Wings: bow-feathers bright-blue with a narrow dark-brown edging; greater-coverts gold-brown with a glossy bright-blue, spangled pattern at the tip of the feather, forming a bright-blue wing-bar.

Primariy-flights: bright-blue.

Secondary-flights: Inner-vane bright-bluek; outer-vane mostly cinnamon-brown, tip of the feather bright-blue; when the wing is closed a wing-triangle is formed.

Breast and front of neck: overall brilliant golden yellow (nanking yellow), each feather has a slightly lighter vein and edging.

Thighs: similar to the breast; the large feathers covering the sides of the belly are very dark-gold yellowish-brown with gold-yellow edging and light gold-yellow shaft.

Belly: slightly darker than the breast.

Rear-part: light brown-grey.

Down: gray.

Serious faults

Deviant pattern on the neck-hackle. Reddish, too pale, or brownish breast. Too red in the gold-brown feathers. Blue pattern on the breast. Lack of pattern on the primary-flights.

Faults

The above serious faults occur to a lesser extent. Uneven color in blue feathers or feather-areas. The blue color is much too light or too dark. Vague blurry or lack of pattern at the base of the shoulder-feathers.

Color and pattern female

Head: bright blue, very narrow edged with gold.

Neck: hackle feathers with a narrow, golden-brown edging that widens slightly towards the throat; the lower edge of the hackle is almost entirely black.

Shoulders, back, and saddle: very dark brown with abright blue sheen, with a narrow dark brown edging, and brilliant gold-yellow veining; the edging narrows towards the saddle.

Tail: bright blue steering-feathers; very dark brown-black coverts with golden-brown edging and golden veining; dark-brown support-feathers with gold shaft and gold-brown edging.

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

Primary-flights: bright blue.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane bright blue; outer-vane bright-blue with a narrow, not sharply defined brown at the edge, tip of the feather bright- blue.

Front of neck, breast, belly and thighs: gold-yellow (nanking-yellow); the feathers on the sides of the breast, towards the wings and rear-part, are very dark-brown with gold-yellow edging and gold-yellow shaft.

Rear-part: light brown-grey.

Down: gray.

Serious faults

Deviant pattern on the neck-hackle. Reddish, too pale, or brownish breast. Too red in the gold-brown feather-areas. Bright blue pattern on the breast. Absence of pattern in the secondary-flights. Too little, too narrow, or too broad dark-brown side-edging on the back, saddle, tail and wing-coverts or too broad gold-yellow shafting. Too much brown in the feather-area on the wings.

Faults

The above serious faults occur in minor degrees. Uneven color in the blue feathers or feather-areas. Too light or too dark blue.

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