Gold tranverse penciled

Color and pattern male

Head: golden-brown.

Neck-hackle: glossy vibrant golden-brown.

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

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

Wings: vibrant golden-brown on the surface of the plumage; the wing-bar feathers have a faint black penciled inner vane.

Primary-flights: outer-vane golden-brown without any penciling, inner-vane black.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane golden-brown, inner-vane golden-brown with some black transverse pencilling.

Breast, front of neck, belly and thighs: warm golden-brown, body-feathers show some black transverse pencilling.

Rear-part: blackish-grey with brown tinge.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

Significantly uneven ground-color. Too light ground-color. Too dark in shoulders and neck- and saddle-hackle. Excessively wide or very irregular lacing of sickles or tail-coverts. Absence of sickle lacing. 

Faults

The above serious faults are present to a lesser extent. Bronze-sheen in sickles.

 

Color and pattern female

Head: warm golden-yellow.

Neck-hackle:  warm golden-yellow.

Shoulders and back: warm-golden yellow, each feather with greenish-black tranverse pencilling.

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

Upper breast and front of neck: warm golde- yellow without any transverse pencilling.

Wings: coverts and wing-bars vibrant golden-yellow with transverse pencilling.

Primary-flights: outer-vane golden-brown with some black at the tip; inner-vane black with some golden-yellow edging along the outer edge of the vane.

Secondary-flights: golden-yellow with transverse penciling that turns into more or less longitudinal stripes on the inne- vane.

Lower breast, belly, and thighs: 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. 

Faults

The above serious faults present to a lesser extent. Golden-yellow ground-color in the transverse penciling.Transverse penciling in the neck-hackle.

 

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