Gold black-spangled
Color and pattern of the male
Head: deep golden-bay.
Neck, back, shoulders, wing-bows and saddle-hackle: deep golden-bay, each feather ending in an elongated sharply pointed glossy green-black spangle, proportional in size to the feather.
Tail: feathers golden-bay with black spangles, feathers black mixed with golden-bay permitted; smaller tail-coverts deep golden-bay with slightly elongated black spangles.
Wing-bars: deep golden-bay, each feather ending in a large, almost round, glossy green-black spangle, resulting in two distinct bars across the wing.
Primary-flights: inner-web golden-bay interspersed with black; outer-web golden brown.
Secondary-flights: inner-web black; outer-web golden-bay, fading to black at the feather-tip.
Breast and belly: deep golden-bay, each feather ending in a large, almost round, glossy green-black spangle.
Thighs: similar to the breast, but the feathering below is predominant black.
Fluff: dark blue-grey with brown tinge.
Down: blue-grey.
Serious faults
Too light or too dark ground-color. Spangles that are too heavy, too small or horseshoe-shaped. Absence or near absence of spangling on the hackles.
Faults
Serious faults to a lesser extent.
Color and pattern of the female
Head: warm golden-bay with black markings.
Neck: hackle warm golden-bay, each feather ending in a elongated glossy green-black spangle; front of the neck similar to the breast.
Back, shoulders, smaller wing-coverts, saddle, breast and belly: warm golden-bay, each feather ending in a large, almost round, glossy green-black spangle, proportional in size to the feather.
Tail: feathers golden-bay with black spangles, feathers black mixed with golden-bay permitted; smaller tail-coverts deep golden-bay with slightly elongated black spangles.
Wing-bars: warm golden-bay, each feather ending in a large, almost round, glossy green-black spangle, resulting in two distinct bars across the wing.
Primary-flights: inner-web golden-bay interspersed with black; outer-web golden-bay.
Secondary-flights: inner-web black; outer-web golden-bay, fading to black at the feather-tip.
Thighs: similar to the breast, but the feathering below is predominant black below.
Fluff: dark blue-grey with black tinge.
Down: blue-grey.
Serious faults
Too light or too dark ground-color. Spangles that are too heavy, too small, or horseshoe-shaped. Absence of clear bands across the wings.
Faults
Serious faults to a lesser extent.
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