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Black Tailed Red Plumage

Color of Male
HEAD: Glossy, intense deep red.
NECK: Hackle - glossy, intense deep red.  Front of Neck - intense, deep red.
BACK & SADDLE: Glossy, intense deep red.
TAIL: Main Tail - black.  Sickles & Lesser Sickles - glossy, greenish black.  Coverts - glossy greenish black, becoming intense deep red as saddle is neared.
WINGS: Shoulders, Fronts, Bows and Coverts - intense, deep red.  Primaries - upper webs, intense, deep red; lower web, blacck fringed with intense deep red.  Primary Coverts - black, edged with red.  Secondaries - upper web, black, fringed with intense deep red, the deep red growing wider in shorter secondaries to form wing bay of glossy, intense deep red when wing is folded; lower web, intense deep red.
BREAST: Glossy, intense, deep red.
BODY & STERN: Body - glossy, intense, deep red.  Stern - intense, deep red.
LOWER THIGHS: Intense, deep red.
UNDERCOLOR: Deep red in all sections.

Color of Female
HEAD: Glossy, intense, deep red.
NECK: Hackle - glossy, intense, deep red, with slight ticking of black confined to lower neck feathers.  Front of Neck - intense, deep red.
BACK & CUSHION: Glossy, intense, deep red.
TAIL: Main Tail - black, two top feathers may be edged with deep red.  Coverts - glossy, intense, deep red.
WINGS: Shoulders, Fronts, Bows and Coverts - glossy, intense, deep red.  Primaries - upper webs, intense, deep red; lower web, black fringed with intense, deep red.  Primary coverts - black edged with red.  Secondaries - upper web black, fringed with intense, deep red, the deep red growing wider in shorter secondaries to form wing bay of glossy, intense, deep red when wing is folded, lower web, intense deep red.
BREAST, BODY, STERN AND LOWER THIGHS: Intense deep red.
UNDERCOLOR: Deep red in all sections.

Disqualifications
One or more white feathers in any section of plumage.

Defects
Brassiness, bronzing, mealiness or shafting in any section of the plumage - Lacing or frosting in surface color - White or slate in undercolor - The general surface color of the male plumage should be an intense, glossy, deep red, except where black is specified; the female with not as brilliant a luster as the male - There should be one uniform surface color, with no variation in tone of color, over the entire body.

Eyes: Reddish Bay
Beak and Legs: yellow preferred, swarthy allowed
Ear Lobes: Red