Silver black-quill

Color and pattern male

Head: silvery-white.

Neck:hackle glossy vibrant silvery-white; front of the neck similar to the breast..

Back, shoulders, wing-bows and saddle-hackle: glossy silvery-white.

Tail: main-feathers black; sickles and coverts green-glossy black with a narrow, sharply defined silvery-white lacing.

Wing-bars: vibrant silvery-white, feathers with more or less faint black quills on the inner-web.

Primary-flights: outer-web silvery-white with some black markings to the end, inner-web white strongly mixed with black fading towards the edge.

Secondary-flights: outer-web silvery-white, inner-web silvery-white strongly mixed with black.

Breast, flanks, thighs and belly: warm silvery white; flanks show some black quills.

Fluff: blackish grey.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

Yellow tint in the hackles. Rust on shoulders and wing-bows. Black spots on wing-coverts, breast and belly. Absence, too wide or very irregular lacing of sickles or tail-coverts.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree.

Color and pattern female

Head and neck-hackle: silvery-white.

Front of the neck and upper-breast: silvery-white without black quills.

Back, shoulders and wing-coverts: silvery-white, each feather finely marked with green-glossy black quills, shaped like grains of wheat, three to five times crosswise on either side of the vein, entirely distinct, touching neither the vein nor the edge of the feather.

Tail: main-feathers silvery-white with strong black quills, most prominent in the top two.

Primary-flights: outer-web silvery-white mixed with some black; inner-web silvery-white strongly mixed with black fading towards the edge.

Secondary-flights: outer-web silvery-white with coarse black quills, inner-web silvery-white with coarse irregular black quills that turns into more or less longitudinal stripes.

Lower breast, flanks, thighs belly and fluff: silvery-white with some black quills that become stronger towards the bottom.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

Yellow tint in the ground-color. Coarse or very irregular quills. Insufficient depth and sharpness of the quills. Quills rising too high on the breast. Clearly visible markings in the neck-hackle.