SCNA Online - Serama Council of North America

Dark as in Dark Cornish Plumage
 
Color of Male
HEAD: Brilliant greenish black.
NECK: Hackle – brilliant greenish black; shafts red.  Front of Neck – brilliant greenish black.
BACK: Brilliant greenish black, with unsymmetrical centers of dark red, the black greatly predominating.
SADDLE: Same as back.
TAIL: Main Tail – black.  Sickles, Lesser Sickles and Coverts – brilliant greenish black.
WINGS: Shoulders & Fronts – greenish black.  Bows – same as back.  Coverts – forming two distinct, brilliant greenish black bars across wings.  Primaries – black, with a narrow edging of deep bay on lower webs; shafts, black.  Secondaries – upper secondaries, black; balance, black upper webs, lower webs one third black next to shaft, the remainder, deep bay, exposed portion of outer webs forming wing bay, deep bay, slightly edged with black; shafts black.
BREAST: Brilliant greenish black.
BODY & STERNS: Body – brilliant greenish black.  Stern – fluff, black.
LOWER THIGHS: Greenish black.
UNDERCOLOR: Slate.
Color of Female
HEAD: Greenish black.
NECK: Hackle – brilliant greenish black, with bay shaft in each feather.  Front of Neck – same as breast.
BACK: Bright reddish mahogany, each feather edged with a narrow lacing of brilliant greenish black, the mahogany being subdivided by one similar crescentic penciling of black.
TAIL: Main Tail – black except the two upper feathers, which are penciled with mahogany.  Coverts – Bright reddish mahogany, each feather evenly edged with a narrow lacing of brilliant greenish black, the mahogany being subdivided by one similar crescentic pencilling of black, and in the largest feathers, a short stripe of black covering part of the shaft.
WINGS: Shoulders, Fronts, Bows – Bright reddish mahogany, feathers evenly laced with a narrow brilliant greenish black lacing, the mahogany being subdivided by one similar crescentic penciling of black.  Coverts – like bows in color, but with the innermost mahogany of each feather expanding in width to admit within its center a short stripe of black, covering part of the shaft, the whole forming two distinct bars across the wings.  Primaries – black, except a narrow edging of irregularly penciled bay on outer part of webs.  Secondaries – upper webs black except slight bay penciling near tips, the short upper feathers completely penciled; lower webs, bay, laced on edge and subdivided by penciling of greenish black running lengthwise of feather; shafts, black.
BREAST: Bright reddish mahogany, each feather evenly edged with a narrow lacing of brilliant greenish black, the mahogany being subdivided by one similar cresentic penciling of black, and in the largest feathers on the lower breast, a short stripe of black covering part of the shaft.
BODY & STERN: Body – same as breast.  Stern – fluff, black tinged with reddish bay.
LOWER THIGHS: Greenish black, penciled with bay.
UNDERCOLOR: Moderately dark slate.