Gold white transverse-pencilled

Color and pattern male

Head: warm golden-yellow.

Neck: hackle warm golden-yellow; front of neck to throat similar to the breast.

Back and saddle-hackle: warm golden-yellow for the visible part.

Wings: warm golden-yellow shoulder and wing-arch; greater-coverts white transverse pencilled 3-4 times wider then those of warm golden-yellow, forming a wing-bar with two bands when the wing is closed.

Primary- and secondary- flights: strong transverse white pencilled on warm golden-yellow, which become narrower towards the feather-tips.

Tail: steering-feathers white; sickles white with a faint golden-yellow pencilling at the base, gradually diminishing towards the tip.

Breast, thigshs and belly: feathers white transverse pencilled on warm golden-yellow, the white pencilling becomes noticeably wider towards the bottom and rear, tip of the feathers white.

Rear-part: tranverse penciled.

Down: grayish-white to white.

Serious faults

Extensive pencilling in the hackles. Shoulder and wing-arch not sufficient warm golden-yellow. Weak transverse pencilling throughout the plumage. Transverse pencilling on the upper breast to throat not rising high enough. Weak pencilling in the wing-flights. Horseshoe pencilling.

Faults

Serious faults occur to a lesser degree.

Color and pattern female

Head: warm golden-yellow.

Neck: hackle warm golden-yellow; front of neck to throat similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders, saddle, wing-coverts, breast: feathers white transverse pencilled on warm golden-yellow, the white pencilling becomes noticeably wider towards the bottom and rear, tip of the feathers as dark as possible.

Primary- and secondary-flights: slightly more powerfull white transverse pencilling on warm golden-yellow, pencilling gradually diminishing in strength towards the tips.

Tail: steering- feathers become darker towards the tip due to the white gradually widening transverse pencilling on warm golden-yellow; coverts are along their entire length white tranverse pencilled on golden yellow.

Belly and thighs: similar to the breast, as strongly pencilled as possible.

Down: grayish-white to white.

Serious faults

Too much penciling on the lower portion of the hackle. Too weak transverse pencilling throughout the plumage. Insufficient pencilling on the upper-breast. Weak pencilling on the wing-flights. Insufficient white pencilling on the tail feathers. Lemon-yellow color in the white plumage and the neck-hackle.