Lemon transverse pencilled

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, saddle-hackle and breast: glossy warm lemon-yellow.

Wing-bars: lemon-yellow, inner-web faintly black transverse pencilled.

Primary-flights: inner-web black, outer-web lemon-yellow.

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

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

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

Fluff: blackish-grey with brown tinge.

Down: light blue-grey.

Note

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

Serious faults

Uneven or too dark ground-color. Too red on the shoulders and wing-bows. Too broad or very irregular lacing of sickles or tail-coverts. Absence of sickle-lacing.

Faults

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

Color and pattern female

Head: warm lemon-yellow.

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

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

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

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

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

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 lemon-yellow with black pencilling or peppering.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

Uneven or too dark ground-color. 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.