Red black-columbian

Color and pattern male

Head: deep-red.

Neck: each hackle-feather with a medium-wide glossy green-black middle-stripe, surrounded by a narrow deep-red lace running around the tip; front of the neck deep-red.

Back, shoulders and wing-bows: deep-red, below the neck-hackle black and deep-red.

Wings: front deep-red, may be partly black; wing-bar deep-redf.

Primary-flights: black with deep-red lace on the outside of the outer-web.

Secondary-flights: inner-web black with deep-red lace running around the tip; outer-web deep-red, forming a complete deep-red wing when it is closed.

Saddle-hackle: deep-red or deep-red with black middle-stripes, similar to the neck-hackle, extending from the tip of the feather no more than halfway down.

Tail: main-feathers black; support-feathers black with deep-red lacing; sickles and coverts green-glossy black, smaller-coverts with narrow deep-red lacing.

Breast, flanks, thighs, belly and fluff: deep-red.

Down: red or blue-gray, preferably the latter.

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern or middle-stripes break throug in the neck-hackle. Red in the sickles. Strong presence of black in parts that should be deep-red on the surface such as wing-coverts, sides of the breast and flanks. Feather-groups varying in color-depth.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree. Insufficient pattern in tail support-feathers and wing-flights.

Color and pattern female

Head: deep-red.

Neck: each hackle-feather with a medium-wide green-glossy black middle-stripe, surrounded by a narrow deep-red lace running around the tip; front of the neck deep-red.

Back and shoulders: deep-red, below the neck-hackle black and deep-red.

Wings: front and coverts deep-red.

Primary-flights: black with deep-red lace on the outside of the outer-web.

Secondary-flights: inner-web black with deep-red lace running around the tip; outer-web buff, forming a complete deep-red wing when it is closed.

Tail: main-feathers black, except for the top two, which are vague deep-red laced; coverts black with narrow deep-red lace.

Breast, flanks, thighs, belly and fluff: deep-red.

Down: red or blue-gray, preferably the latter.

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern or middle-stripes break throug in the neck-hackle. Broad and indistinct deep-red lacing on the tail-coverts. Strong presence of black in areas that should be deep-red on the surface such as wing-coverts, sides of the breast and flanks. Feather-groups varying in color-depth.