Lemon black-columbian

Color and pattern male

Head: lemon-yellow.

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

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

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

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

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

Saddle-hackle: lemon-yellow or lemon-yellow 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 lemon-yellow lacing; sickles and coverts green-glossy black, smaller-coverts with narrow lemon-yellow lacing.

Breast, flanks, thighs, belly and fluff: lemon-yellow.

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

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern or middle-stripes break throug in the neck-hackle. Lemon-yellow in the sickles. Strong presence of black in parts that should be lemon-yellow on the surface such as wing-coverts, sides of the breast and flanks. 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. Uneven, too light or too dark lemon-yellow ground-color.

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.