Color and pattern male

Head: buff.

Neck: each feather of the hackle has a medium-wide, green-glossy black shaft-stripe, surrounded by a narrow, buff lace, which runs around the feather-tip; front of the neck buff.

Back and saddle-hackle: upper plumage buff, between the shoulders below the neck-hackle buff and black; saddle-hackle buff or buff with black shaft-stripes that extends from the tip of the feather no more than halfway down.

Tail: steering-feathers black; support-feathers black with buff lacing; sickles and coverts green-glossy black; small-coverts green-glossy black with narrow buff lacing.

Wings: bow buff, may be partly black; shoulder-arch and wing-bar buff.

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

Secondary-flights: inner-vane black 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, body and thighs: buff.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

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

Faults

The above serious faults occurring to a lesser extent. Insufficient pattern in the tail support-feathers and the wing-flights.

Color and pattern female

Head: buff.

Neck: hackle, starting approximately at the transition of neck and head, has a medium-wide, green-glossy black shaft-stripe, complete surrounded by a narrow buff lace; front of the neck buff.

Shoulders: buff.

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

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

Wings: bow and coverts buff.

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

Secondary-flights: inner-vane black 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, thighs and rear-part: buff

Down: blue-grey. 

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern in the neck-hackle.  Strong presence of black in parts 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

The above serious faults occurring to a lesser extent. Insufficient pattern in the tail support-feathers and the wing-flights.

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