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MALE
Crown:
short metallic
green.
Crest:
crimson, narrow, stiff, elongated, feathers.
Face and Throat:
black, with metallic green
spots.
Bare Facial Skin and Lappet:
bluish or greenish white (Bluish-green).
Ruff:
white, rounded
feathers with a blue and black border.
Beak:
bluish grey.
Iris:
pale yellow
BODY:
Mantle:
metallic bluish green, rounded feathers with a black border edged with scintillant green.
Upper and Middle Back:
black, with a green bar and a wide buffy yellow fringe, feathers broad and square.
Rump:
black, with a green
bar and with a vermillion fringe. Vermillion fringe shows an irregular patch, feathers of rump broad and square.
Breast:
metallic bluish-green, rounded feathers with a black border edged with scintillant green; wider and brighter than mantle.
Lower Breast:
white.
Flanks:
white, sometimes with a slight tinge of pale yellow over the white on
the lower sides.
Abdomen:
white.
Vent:
white, barred with black and brownish-gray.
WINGS:
Scapulars:
metallic bluish-green, with a black border edged with scintillant (sparkling) green; feathers, rounded.
Wing Coverts:
dark metallic blue, with black boarders.
Primaries: blackish-brown sparsely barred with buff.
TAIL:
Central
Rectrices:
white, curved unbroken crescent shaped blackish-blue bars and wavy black lines on the interspaces.
Other
Rectirices:
similar on the narrow inner web, silvery-gray passing to brown outside with curved black bars on the outer
web.
Upper Tail Coverts:
mottled black and white, with long orange-vermillion tips.
Under Tail Coverts:
black and dark green more or less barred with white.
Length:
33 7/8 to 45 inches.
Common Faults:
1.
Traces of color other than green in crown. (Red of crest should stop precisely where green begins.)
2. Traces of red
in breast or flanks.
3. Facial color not bluish-green.
4. Dark gray or brownish color in white area between
crescent bars on central rectrices.
5. Broken or mottled barring on central rectrices.
6. Small size approaching
that of the Golden.
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FEMALE
HEAD and NECK:
Crown:
reddish chestnut, with blackish barring.
Sides of Head and Neck:
blackish brown, spotted with cinnamon buff strongly washed with reddish chestnut with dark blackish barring with a green
sheen.
Face:
buff, strongly tinged with reddish-chestnut.
Upper Throat:
pale buff, sometimes white.
Lower Throat:
buff, strongly tinged with reddish-chestnut.
Lores, Cheeks, and Ear Coverts: silvery gray spotted
with black.
Orbital Skin:
light slaty-blue.
Beak:
bluish-gray.
Iris:
brown, sometimes
pale yellow or grayish in older hens.
Body:
Mantle and Upper Breast, rufous buff, strongly washed with reddish
chestnut, the dark barring blackish, with a green sheen.
Back:
chestnut, strongly vermiculated with black.
Flanks:
buff, with dark blackish barring.
Brest:
buff, with dark blackish brown barring with a green sheen.
Abdomen:
pale buff sometimes white.
WINGS:
Wing Coverts, Tertiaries and Secondaries:
rufous buff, washed with reddish
chestnut, the dark barring blackish, with green sheen; the bars coarser than in the mantle.
TAIL:
Tail: rufous
brown, Rounded feathers, not pointed at the tip, and strongly marked with broad irregular bars of black, buff and pale gray
vermiculated with black.
Length: 12 1/8 to 14 inches.
LEGS and FEET:
Thighs: buff, mottled brown and black.
Legs and feet: bluish gray.
Size:
Length: 26 to 26 inches. Larger than Golden hens.
Common Faults:
1. Lack of reddish chestnut on head, neck, throat, and upper breast.
2. No gray marking in tails.
3.
Lack of distinct barring in tail.
4. Yellowish legs.
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