Blue gold transverse pencilled

Color and pattern male

Head: warm golden-yellow.

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

Back, shoulders, wing-arch, saddle-hackle and breast: glossy warm golden-brown.

Wing-bar: warm golden-yellow, inner-web faintly transverse pencilled.

Primary-flights: inner-web bright-blue, outer-web golden-yellow.

Secondary-flights: inner-web warm golden-yellow bright-blue transverse pencilled, outer-web golden-yellow except the tip where the pencilling continues.

Tail: steering-feathers bright-blue; sickles and coverts bright-blue with a narrow, sharply defined warm golden-yellow lacing.

Breast,flanks, thighs and belly: warm golden-yellow, flanks show some bright-blue pencilling.

Rear-part: blackish-grey with brown tinge.

Down: blue-grey.

Note

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

Serious faults

Uneven or much too light ground-color. Blue color too light. Too dark hackles and shoulders. 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-yellow.

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

Back: warm golden-yellow, each feather with bright-blue fine straight tranverse pencilling, slightly wider than those of golden-yellow.

Shoulders, wing-coverts and saddle: warm golden-yellow, each feather with bright-blue fine straight tranverse pencilling, approximately as wide as those of golden-yellow.

Primary- and secondary-flights: warm golden-yellow, with straight green-glossy bright-blue tranverse pencilling, slightly wider than as those of golden-yellow.

Tail: steering-feathers and coverts warm golden-yellow, each feather with bright-blue fairly finely and straight transverse pencilling, slightly wider than as those of golden-yellow; coverts warm golden-yellow; each feather with bright-blue fine straight tranverse pencilling, slightly wider than as those of golden-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 rear-part: warm golden-yellow with bright-blue 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.