Buff black-columbian

Color and pattern male

Head: buff.

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

Back, shoulders and wing-bows: buff, below the neck-hackle black and buff.

Wings: front buff, may be partly black; wing-bar buff.

Primary-flights: black with buff lace on the outside of the outer-web.

Secondary-flights: inner-web black with buff lace running around the tip; outer-web buff, forming a complete buff wing when it is closed.

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

Tail: main-feathers black; support-feathers black with buff lacing; sickles and coverts green-glossy black, smaller-coverts with narrow buff lacing.

Breast, flanks, thighs, belly and fluff: buff.

Down: light buff or blue-grey, preferably the latter.

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern or middle-stripes break throug in the neck-hackle. Buff in the sickles. Strong presence of black in parts that should be buff on the surface such as wing-coverts, sides of the breast and flanks. Feather-groups varying in color-depth.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree. Insufficient pattern in tail support-feathers and wing-flights.

Color and pattern female

Head: buff.

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

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

Wings: front and coverts buff.

Primary-flights: black with buff lace on the outside of the outer-web.

Secondary-flights: inner-web black with buff lace running around the tip; outer-web buff, forming a complete buff wing when it is closed.

Tail: main-feathers black, except for the top two, which are vague buff laced; coverts black with narrow buff lace.

Breast, flanks, thighs, belly and fluff: buff.

Down: light buff or blue-grey, preferably the latter.

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern or middle-stripes break through on the neck-hackle. Strong presence of black in areas that should be buff on the surface such as wing-coverts, sides of the breast and flanks