Gold black-quill

Color and pattern male

Head: golden-bay.

Neck: hackle glossy vivid golden-bay; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders, wing-bows and saddle-hackle: glossy vivid golden-bay.

Tail: main-feathers black; sickles and coverts green-glossy black with a narrow, sharply defined golden-bay lacing.

Wing-bars: golden-bay, feathers with more or less faint black quills on the inner-web.

Primary-flights: outer-web golden-bay with some black markings to the end, inner-web golden-bay strongly mixed with black fading towards the edge.

Secondary-flights: outer-web golden-bay, inner-web golden-bay strongly mixed with black.

Breast, flanks, thighs and belly: warm golden-bay, flanks show some black quills.

Fluff: blackish-grey with brown tinge.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

Significant uneven or too light ground-color. Too dark in shoulders, wing-bows and hackles. Absence, too wide or very irregular lacing of sickles or tail-coverts.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree. Bronze-sheen in sickles.

Color and pattern female

Head and neck-hackle: warm golden-buff.

Front of the neck and upper-breast: warm golden-buff without black quills.

Back, shoulders and wing-coverts: warm-golden-buff, each feather finely marked with green-glossy black quills, shaped like grains of wheat, three to five times crosswise on either side of the vein, entirely distinct, touching neither the vein nor the edge of the feather.

Tail: main-feathers golden-buff with strong black transverse quills, most prominent in the top two.

Primary-flights: outer-web golden-buff mixed with some black; inner-web golden-buff strongly mixed with black fading towards the edge.

Secondary-flights: outer-web golden-buff with coarse black quills, inner-web golden-buff with coarse irregular black quills that turns into more or less longitudinal stripes.

Lower breast, flanks, thighs, belly and fluff: warm golden-buff with some black quills that become stronger towards the bottom.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

Ground-color uneven, far too light or far too dark. Coarse or very irregular quills. Insufficient depth and sharpness of the quills. Quills rising too high on the breast.