Gold quill

Color and pattern male

Head: golden-brown.

Neck: hackle glossy vibrant golden-brown; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Shoulders, back and saddle-hackle: glossy warm golden-brown.

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

Wings: vibrant golden-brown, wing-bar feathers have a faint black transverse pencilled inner-vane.

Primary-flights: outer-vane golden-brown with some black transverse pencilling to the end, inner-vane golden-brown strongly mixed with black.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane golden-brown, inner-vane golden-brown strongly mixed with black.

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

Rear-part: blackish-grey with brown tinge.

Down: blue-grey.

Note

The hen-feathered male entirely similar in colour, pattern and deviations to the female.

Serious faults

Significantly uneven ground-color. Too light ground-color. Too dark in shoulders and hackles. Excessive wide or very irregular lacing of sickles or tail-coverts. Absence of sickle lacing.

Faults

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

Color and pattern female

Head and neck-hackle: warm golden-yellow.

Front of the neck and upper-breast: warm golden-yellow without black transverse pencilling.

Back, shoulders, wing-coverts and lower-breast : warm-golden yellow, each feather with green-glossy black tranverse pencilling.

Steering- feathers: golden-yellow with strong black transverse pencilling, most prominent in the top two.

Primary-flights: outer-vane golden-brown mixed with some black; inner-vane black with some golden-yellow lacing faded to the outer-edge.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane golden-yellow coarse black transverse pencilled, inner-vane golden-yellow with coarse black pencilling that turns into more or less longitudinal stripes.

Lower breast, flanks, thighs and belly: warm golden-yellow with some transverse penciling that become stronger towards the lower part.

Down: blue-gray.

Serious faults

Gold ground-color uneven, far too light or far too dark. Coarse or very irregular transverse penciling. Insufficient depth and sharpness of the transverse penciling pattern. Transverse penciling rising too high on the breast.