Lemon-wheaten
Color and pattern male
Head and neck-hackle: lemon-yellow.
Back, shoulders and wing-bow: orange-red.
Saddle: hackle lemon-yellow, a slightly deeper shade than in the neck-hackle is permitted, but uniformity is desired.
Tail: main-feathers black; sickles and coverts glossy green-black.
Wings: front black; wing-bar green-glossy black.
Primary-flights: black with a narrow lemon-yellow lace along the outer-web.
Secondary-flights: inner-web black, outer-web lemon- yellow, forming a lemon-yellow wing-bay when the wing is closed.
Breast: glossy green-black.
Thighs, belly and fluff: black.
Down: creamy.
Serious faults
Absence of the wing-bay. White in tail and wing-flights.
Faults
Slightly too light or slightly too dark hackles. Slightly too light back, shoulders and wing-bow. Incomplete colored wing-bay.
Color and pattern of the female
Head and neck-hackle: lemon-yellow, hackle with negligible shaft-stripes.
Back, breast, front of the neck and wings: light lemon-yellow.
Tail: upper main-feathers on both sides light-wheaten, faintly speckled with black; other feathers dull black or black with a narrow wheaten edge.
Wing-flights: outer-web light-wheaten, inner-web wheaten with brownish-black spots.
Thighs, belly and fluff: light creamy yellow-wheaten.
Down: creamy.
Serious faults
Significant uneven upper-color.
Faults
Somewhat uneven or slightly too dark or slightly too light ground-color. Clear visible hackle-stripes. Light hackle-color.
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