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Blue Breasted Red California Daisies
Color - Male
Comb, Face, and Wattles: Dark purple or dark red, dark purple preferred.
Beak: Dark horn.
Eyes: Dark brown.
Ear-lobes: Light blue turquoise
Shanks and toes: Black to dark willow.
Plumage:
Head: Light
orange.
Neck: Hackle
- light orange shading to golden at lower extremities, free from dark
striping.
Front of Neck
- same as breast.
Crest: Light orange.
Beard and Muffs: Blue.
Back: Lustrous orange-red.
Saddle: Same as hackle.
Tail: Blue, some orange shafting in sickles.
Wings: Fronts - blue, preferably laced with dark blue.
Bows - lustrous
orange-red.
Coverts - blue
forming wingbar.
Primaries - blue,
lower webs edged with bay.
Secondaries - blue,
bay on outer web surface to form a wing bay of the same continuous
color.
Breast: An even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather preferably having a
lacing of dark
blue.
Body and Fluff: Body - an even shade of clear bluish slate, some orange-red
ticking in fluff
permissible.
Fluff - clear
bluish slate.
Legs: Lower Thighs - an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather having a
sharply
defined lacing of darker
blue.
Undercolor of All Sections: Light slate.
Color - Female
Comb, Face, and Wattles: Dark purple or dark red, dark purple preferred.
Beak: Dark horn.
Eyes: Dark brown.
Ear-lobes: Light blue turquoise
Shanks and toes: Black to dark willow.
Plumage:
Head: Golden
orange.
Neck: Hackle
- golden orange, striped with blue.
Front of Neck
- salmon.
Crest: Golden orange striped with blue.
Beard and Muffs: Blue.
Back: Web of feathers on surface, blue, finely stippled with light brown, the
light brown
slightly
predominating; importance is attached to fineness, sharp definition of
stippling,
evenness of color and freedom from shafting. Lower portion of feather, blue.
Tail: Main Tail - blue, except top two feathers, which are stippled with light
brown.
Coverts - same as back.
Wings: Fronts, Bows, and Coverts - same as back.
Primaries - blue,
the outer webs slightly edged with light brown stippling.
Secondaries - blue,
outer webs finely stippled with light brown.
Breast: Salmon, shading lighter at body, blending into body color.
Body and Fluff: Body - light blue, except at sides, where surface color blends
into that of
wings and back.
Fluff - clear
bluish slate.
Legs: Lower Thighs - blue, tinged with brown.
Undercolor of All Sections: Light slate.
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