Silver multiple laced blue-partridge

Color and pattern male

Head: silver-white.

Neck: hackle silver-white, each feather with a grey-blue middle-stripe, running almost parallel to the edge, ends in a point near the tip; shaft grey-blue; front of the neck grey-blue.

Back, shoulders and wing-bows: silver-white.

Tail: main-feathers; sickles and coverts grey-blue, smaller-coverts silver-white laced.

Wings: front grey-blue, greater-coverts grey-blue forming a wing-bar when the wing is closed.

Primary-flights: grey-blue with a silver-white lace along the outer-web.

Secondary-flights: grey-blue with a silver-white lace along the outer-web, so that a white wing-bay is formed; feather-end grey-blue.

Saddle-hackle: similar to the neck-hackle.

Breast: grey-blue, some white allowed.

Thighs, belly and fluff: grey-blue, some white allowed in thighs.

Down: greyish.

Serious faults

Much white in breast. White in sickles and tail. Yellow tint in the ornamental feathers. Insufficient middle-stripes.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree. Incomplete white wing-bay.

Color and pattern female

Head: silver-white to steel-grey.

Neck: hackle silver-white to steel-grey, each feather with a broad grey-blue middle-stripe, running almost parallel to the feather-edge, ends in a point near the tip; shaft blue-gray; front of the neck similar to the breast.

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

Tail: main-feathers grey-blue, both upper feathers black with silver-white to steel-grey; coverts similar to the back.

Primary-flights: grey-blue with a silver-white to steel-grey lace to the outer-web.

Secondary-flights: inner-web grey-blue, outer-web silver-white to steel-grey with grey-blue lacing stripes running approximately parallel to the feather outline.

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

Thighs and belly: soft-grey with grey-blue multiple lacing.

Fluff: soft-grey.

Downs: greyish.

Serious faults

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