Gold transverse pencilled

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, saddle-hackle and breast: glossy warm golden-bay.

Wing-bars: golden-bay, inner-web faintly black transverse pencilled.

Primary-flights: inner-web black, outer-web golden-bay.

Secondary-flights: inner-web golden-bay black transverse pencilled, outer-web golden-bay except the tip where the pencilling continues.

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

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

Fluff: blackish-grey with brown tinge.

Down: blue-grey.

Note

Hen-feathered males correspond entirely in color and pattern females.

Serious faults

Significant uneven or too light ground-color. Too dark hackles and shoulder. Too broad or very irregular lacing of sickles or tail-coverts. Absence of sickle-lacing. Bronze sheen in sickles.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree.

Color and pattern female

Head: warm golden-buff.

Neck: hackle warm golden-buff, some penciling allowed at base of the hackle; front of the neck similar to the breast, but slightly less strongly pencilled .

Back: warm golden-buff, each feather with green-glossy black fine straight tranverse pencilling, slightly wider than those of golden-buff.

Shoulders, wing-coverts and saddle: warm golden-buff, each feather with green-glossy black fine straight tranverse pencilling, approximately as wide as those of golden-buff.

Wing-flights: warm golden-buff, with straight green-glossy black tranverse pencilling, slightly wider than as those of golden-buff.

Tail: main-feathers and coverts warm golden-buff, each feather with green-glossy black fairly finely and straight transverse pencilling, slightly wider than as those of golden-buff.

Breast, flanks and thighs: similar to the shoulders, pencilling on the breast should retain as much as possible towards the top and not fade out too strongly.

Belly and fluff: warm golden-yellow with black pencilling or peppering.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

Ground-color uneven, much too light or much too dark. Coarse or very irregular pencilling. Insufficient colour-depth and sharpness of the pencilling. Insufficient pencilling on the breast. Pencilling extending too high into the neck-hackle.