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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