Multiple laced silver-partridge

Color and pattern male

Head: silvery-white.

Neck: hackle silvery-white, each feather with a glossy, greenish-black shaft-stripe, running almost parallel to the feather edge; the shaft-stripe ends in a point near the tip; vein black; front of the neck black.

Shoulders and back: silvery-white.

Saddle-hackle: silvery-white, each feather with a black shaft stripe similar to the neck-hackle.

Tail: steering-feathers black; sickles, by-sickles and greater-coverts green-glossy black; smaller-coverts green-glossy black edged with silvery-white.

Wings: bow black; wing-arch silvery-white; greater-coverts green-glossy black forming a wing-bar when the wing is closed.

Primary-flights: black with a white edge long the outside of the outer-vane.

Secondary-flights: black with a silver-white edge along the outer-vane, so that a white wing-triangle is formed; the feather-end greenish black.

Breast: green-glossy black; some white permitted.

Belly, lower thighs and rear-part: black, some white permitted in thighs.

Down: greyish.

Serious faults

Much white in breast. White in sickles and tail. Yellow tint in the ornamental feathers. Insufficient neck- and saddle-hackle pattern.

Faults

The above serious faults occurring to a lesser extent, incompletely white wing-triangle.

Color and pattern female

Head: steel-grey.

Neck: hackle steel-grey, each feather with a broad green-glossy black shaft-stripe (slightly laced with steel-grey), running almost parallel to the feather edge; the shaft-stripe ends in a point near the tip; vein black; front of the neck black.

Back, shoulders, saddle-cushion and wing-coverts: each feather steel-grey sharpley black multiple laced, parallel to each other and to the outline.

Tail: steering-feathers black, both upper feathers black with steel-grey pattern; coverts similar to the back.

Primary-flights: black with a steel-grey edge to the outer-vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane black, outer-vane steel-grey with black lacing stripes running approximately parallel to the feather outline.

Breast: similar to the back, lacing extend to the throat.

Belly and lower thighs: soft-grey with black multiple lacing.

Rear-part: soft-grey.

Downs: greyish.

Serious faults

Too weak or incorrect pattern on the breast, wing-coverts and back. Too rusty or too grey-brown ground colour. Too weak or incorrect laced. Peppered pattern instead of clear pattern.