Lemon black-quill

Color and pattern male

Head: lemon-yellow.

Neck: hackle glossy, vivid lemon-yellow; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders, wing-bows and saddle-hackle: glossy warm lemon-yellow.

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

Wing-bar: vivid lemon-yellow, feathers with more or less faint black quills on the inner-web.

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

Secondary-flights: outer-vane lemon-yellow, inner-vane lemon-yellow strongly mixed with black.

Breast, flanks, thighs and belly: lemon-yellow, flanks show some black quills .

Fluff: blackish-grey with brown tinge.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

Too dark, too light or irregular ground-color. Too brown on shoulders and wing-bows. Absence, too broad or very irregular lacing on sickles or tail-coverts.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree. Too dark on the back.

Color and pattern female

Head and neck-hackle: warm lemon-yellow.

Front of the neck and upper-breast: warm lemon-yellow without black quills.

Back, shoulders and wing-coverts: warm lemon-yellow, 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 lemon-yellow with strong black transverse quills, most prominent in the top two..

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

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

Lower breast, flanks, thighs belly and fluff: lemon-yellow with some quills that become stronger towards the bottom.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

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