Gold quill

Color and pattern male

Head: golden-brown.

Neck: hackle glossy vibrant golden-brown; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders, wing-coverts and saddle-hackle: warm golden yellow, each feather with green-glossy black straight tranverse pencilling, slightly wider than as those of golden-yellow.

Primary- and secondary-flights: warm golden yellow, with green-glossy black straight tranverse pencilling, slightly wider than as those of golden-yellow.

Tail: steering-feathers, sickles and coverts warm golden yellow, each feather with green-glossy black straight tranverse pencilling, slightly wider than as those of golden-yellow.

Breast: warm-golden yellow, each feather with green-glossy black straight tranverse pencilling, approximately as wide as those of golden-yellow.

Flanks, thighs, belly and rear-part: warm golden-yellow with black transverse pencilling or peppering.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

Significantly uneven ground-color. Too light ground-color. Too dark in shoulders and hackles. Excessive wide or very irregular lacing of sickles or tail-coverts. Absence of sickle lacing.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree. Bronze-sheen in sickles.

Color and pattern female

Head: warm golden-yellow.

Neck: hackle warm golden-yellow; front of the neck similar to the breast but marked transversely slightly less strongly.

Back, shoulders, wing-coverts and saddle: warm golden yellow, each feather with green-glossy black straight tranverse pencilling, slightly wider than as those of golden-yellow.

Primary- and secondary-flights: warm golden yellow, with green-glossy black straight tranverse pencilling, slightly wider than as those of golden-yellow.

Tail: steering-feathers and coverts warm golden yellow, each feather with green-glossy black straight tranverse pencilling, slightly wider than as those of golden-yellow.

Breast : warm-golden yellow, each feather with green-glossy black straight tranverse pencilling, approximately as wide as those of golden-yellow.

Flanks, thighs, belly and rear-part: warm golden-yellow with black transverse pencilling or peppering.

Down: blue-grey.

Serious faults

Giolden-yellow uneven. Much too light or much too dark golden-yellow. Coarse or very irregular pencilling. Insufficient colour depth and sharpness of the pencilling. Insufficient pencilling on the breast. Pencilling extending too high into the neck-hackle.