Silver tranverse-pencilled

Color and pattern male

Head:silvery-white.

Neck: hackle silvery-white; front of neck to throat similar to the breast.

Back and saddle-hackle: silvery-white for the visible part.

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

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

Tail: steering-feathers black; sickles green-glossy black with a faint silvery-white pencilling at the base, gradually diminishing towards the tip.

Breast, belly and thighs: feathers metallic green-glossy black transverse pencilled on silvery-whiten, the black pencilling becomes noticeably wider towards the bottom and rear, tip of the feathers as dark as possible.

Rear-part: transverse pencilled.

Down: grayish-black to black.

Note

Hen-feathered males correspond entirely in color and pattern females.

Serious faults

Extensive penciling in the hackles. Shoulder and wing-arch that are not white enough. Weak pencilling throughout the plumage. Transverse pencilling on the upper breast to throat not rising high enough. Weak pencilling in the wing-flights. Horseshoe penciling. Complete insufficient sheen in the black pencilling and sickles. Yellow tint in the hackles.

Faults

Serious faults occur to a lesser degree.

Color and pattern female

Head: silvery-white.

Neck: hackle silvery-white; front of neck to throat similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders, saddle, wing-coverts, breast: feathers metallic green-glossy black transverse pencilled on silvery-white, the black pencilling becomes noticeably wider towards the bottom and rear, tip of the feathers as dark as possible.

Primary- and secondary-flights: slightly more powerfull black transverse pencilling on silvery-white, penciling gradually diminishing in strength towards the tips.

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

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

Down: grayish-black to black.

Serious faults

Extensive pencilling on the lower neck-hackle. Weak pencilling throughout the plumage. Insufficient pencilling on the upper breast. Weak pencilling in the wing-flights. Far too little black pencilling in the steering-feathers.