Lemon black-columbian

Color and pattern male

Head: lemon-yellow.

Neck: each hackle-feather with a medium-wide green-glossy black shaft-stripe, surrounded by a narrow lemon-yellow lace running around the -tip; front of the neck lemon-yellow.

Back and shoulders: lemon-yellow, below the neck-hackle lemon-yellow and black.

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

Tail: steering-feathers black; support-feathers black with lemon-yellow lacing; sickles and coverts green-glossy black; smaller-coverts with narrow lemon-yellow lacing.

Wings: lemon-yellow , may be partly black; wing-arch and wing-bar lemon-yellow .

Primary-flights: black lemon-yellow lace on the outside of the outer-vane.

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

Breast, flanks, thighs, belly, and rear-part: lemon-yellow.

Down: light lemon-yellow or light blue-gray, preferably the latter.

Serious faults

Insufficient or broken shaft-stripes in the neck-hackle. Lemon-yellow in the sickles. Strong presence of black in the parts that should be lemon-yellow. A very irregular lemon-yellow ground-color and/or it's heading towards buff or becoming too pale.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree. Insufficient pattern in tail-coverts and wing-flights. A slightly uneven, too light or too dark lemon-yellow ground-color.

Color and pattern female

Head: lemon-yellow.

Neck: each hackle-feather with a medium-wide black shaft-stripe, surrounded by a narrow lemon-yellow lace running around the tip; front of the neck lemon-yellow.

Back and shoulders: lemon-yellow, below the neck-hackle lemon-yellow and black.

Tail: steering-feathers black, except for the top two feathers, which are faintly lemon-yellow laced; coverts black with narrow lemon-yellow lace.

Wings: bow and coverts lemon-yellow.

Primary-flights: black with lemon-yellow lace on the outside of the outer-vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane black with lemon-yellow lace running around the tip; outer-vane lemon-yellow so that when the wing is closed it is complete lemon-yellow .

Breast, flanks, thighs, belly and rear-part: lemon-yellow.

Down: light lemon-yellow or light blue-gray, preferably the latter.

Serious faults

Insufficient or broken shaft-stripes in the neck-hackle. Strong presence of black in the areas that should be lemon-yellow. Feather-groups varying in color-depth. A very irregular lemon-yellow ground-color and/or it's heading towards buff or becoming too pale.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree. Insufficient pattern in tail-coverts and wing-flights. A slightly uneven, too light or too dark lemon-yellow ground-color.