Lemon-wheaten
Color and pattern male
Head and neck-hackle: lemon-yellow.
Shoulders and back: orange-red.
Saddle-hackle: lemon-yellow, a slightly deeper shade in the saddle than in the neck is permitted, but the greatest possible uniformity in color-depth is desirable.
Tail: steering- feathers black; sickles, by-sickles and coverts green-glossy black.
Wings: bow black; wing-bar green-glossy black.
Primary-flights: black with a narrow lemon-yellow edge along the outer-vane.
Secondary-flights: inner-vane black, outer-vane lemon- yellow, forming a lemon-yellow wing-triangle when the wing is closed.
Breast: glossy green black.
Belly, thighs and rear-part: black.
Down: creamy.
Serious faults
Absence of the wing triangle. White in the sickles, tail and wing-flights.
Faults
Slightly too light or slightly too dark color on the neck- and saddle-hackle. Slightly too light color on the back and shoulders. Incomplete colored wing-triangle.
Color and pattern of the female
Head and neck-hackle: lemon-yellow, hackle with negligible shaft striping.
Breast, back, and wings: light lemon-yellow.
Tail: upper steering-feathers on both sides light-wheaten, faintly speckled with black; other tail-feathers dull black or black with a narrow wheaten edge.
Primary- and secondary- flights: outer-vane light-wheaten, inner-vane wheaten with brownish-black speckles.
Belly, lower thighs and rear-part: light creamy yellow wheaten.
Down: creamy.
Serious faults
Significantly uneven top color.
Faults
Somewhat uneven or slightly too dark or slightly too light ground-color. Clearly visible hackle patttern. Light hackle color.
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