Buff blue-columbian

Color and pattern male

Head: buff.

Neck: each hackle-feather with a medium-wide, bright-blue shaft-stripe, surrounded by a narrow buff lace, which runs around the tip; front of the neck buff.

Back and shoulders: buff, below the neck-hackle buff and blue.

Saddle-hackle: buff or buff with black shaft-stripes, similar to the neck-hackle, extending from the tip of the feather no more than halfway down.

Tail: steering-feathers bright-blue; support-feathers bright-blue with buff lacing; sickles and greater-coverts bright-blue; smaller-coverts bright-blue with narrow buff lacing.

Wings: bow buff, may be partly bright-blue; wing-arch and wing-bar buff.

Primary-flights: bright-blue with buff lace on the outside of the outer-vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane bright-blue with buff lace that runs around the feather tip; outer-vane buff so that when the wing is closed it is complete buff .

Breast, belly, flanks, thighs and rear-part: buff.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern in the neck-hackle. Buff in the sickles. Pattern in the saddle-hackle. Strong presence of bright-blue in parts that should be buff on the surface, such as the wing-coverts,breast, body and thighs. Broken shaft stripe pattern. Deviations in color depth in different feather-groups.

Faults

The above serious faults occurring to a lesser extent. Insufficient pattern in tail support-feathers and wing-flights. Presence of entirely black or partially black feather areas within the blue and a much too dark or much too light blue color.

Color and pattern female

Head: buff.

Neck: hackle, starting approximately at the transition of neck and head, has a medium-wide, bright-blue shaft stripe pattern, complete surrounded by a narrow, buff lace; feathers on the front of the neck buff.

Back and shoulders: buff, below the neck-hackle buff and blue.

Tail: steering-feathers bright-blue, except for the top two feathers, which are faintly buff laced; coverts bright-blue with narrow buff lace.

Wings: bow and coverts buff.

Primary-flights: bright-blue with buff lace on the outside of the outer vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane bright-blue with buff lace that runs around the feather tip; outer-vane buff so that when the wing is closed it is complete buff .

Breast, belly, flanks, thighs and rear-part: buff.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern in the neck-hackle. Strong presence of blue in areas that should be buff on the surface, such as wing-coverts, breast and body. Broken shaft-stripes. Deviations in color depth in different feather-groups.

Faults

Serious faults occur to a lesser extent. Insufficient pattern in tail support-feathers and wing-flights. Presence of entirely black or partially black feather areas within the blue and a much too dark or much too light blue color.