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Post by FinchG on Mar 7, 2013 9:04:17 GMT -6
Colour Standards
Self Chocolate
Head, neck upper breast, wing flights and tail dark chocolate. Cheeks, mantle and wing coverts chocolate. The lower breast, underparts and rump cream with uniform "V" shaped dark chocolate flecks.
Beak - upper mandible dark grey, lower mandible steel grey
Legs - dark grey
Self Chestnut
Head, neck upper breast, wing flights and tail dark coffee brown. Cheeks, mantle and wing coverts coffee brown. The lower breast, underparts and rump cream with uniform "V" shaped dark coffee brown flecks.
Beak - upper mandible dark grey, lower mandible steel grey
Legs - dark grey
Self Fawn (Ginger)
Head, neck upper breast, wing flights and tail dark red brown. Cheeks, mantle and wing coverts red brown. The lower breast, underparts and rump cream with uniform "V" shaped dark red brown flecks.
Beak - upper mandible dark horn, lower mandible light horn
Legs - horn coloured
White
To be pure white, showing no markings on the body or pigment in the bill or legs.
Pastel (Dilute Fawn)
Head, neck upper breast and tail dilute red brown. Cheeks, mantle and wing coverts cream. Wing flights off-white. The lower breast and underparts white without flecks
Beak - upper and lower mandible horn
Legs - horn coloured
Pied (Variegated)
To conform to appropriate colour. Markings and body colour to be brokenwith white ina symetrical pattern. Pink markings in the bill and legs is permissible.
The Sydney Finch Exhibitors have an excellent standard in variegeated Bengos and go further to classify them into 3 sub groups of;
1) Lightly Variegated
2) Variegated
3) Heavily Variegated
Dilute
To conform to appropriate colour. All markings and body colour to carry an even dilution of colouring throughout; preferably by at least 30% of the base colour.
Crested
The crest should be as large as possible but neat and radiating from the centre point on top of the head
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