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Grizzle Bar: Body, head, wing shields and rump an even peppery combination of (color) and white (each feather should display both color and white, for example, blue grizzled with white). The neck a darker shade of color finely grizzled, producing a frost like effect. Wing to have two distinct darker colored bars. Blue, silver , brown, and khaki bar grizzles to have flights and tails that are darker and less grizzled. Mealy and Cream bar to have flights and tails often all white or lavender gray. Beak and toenails: Colored appropriately according to the color of the bird.

Tortoise-Grizzle Check: Combine the color classes grizzle check and grizzle T-pattern with the tortoiseshell class as listed in the color description of the Chinese Owl Standard.  

The following all would be entered in the GRIZZLE BAR CLASS and would compete against each other: Blue Bar Grizzles, Mealy Bar Grizzles, Brown Bar Grizzles, Silver Bar Grizzles, Cream Bar Grizzles, Khaki Bar Grizzles and Indigo Bar Grizzles. All Grizzle Bars compete in one class.

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The following all would be entered in the TORTOISE-GRIZZLE BAR CLASS and would compete against each other: Light Tortoiseshells, Dark Tortoiseshells, Blue Check Grizzles, Silver Check Grizzles, Red Check Grizzles, Yellow Check Grizzles, Khaki Check Grizzles, Brown Check Grizzles and Indigo Check Grizzles. All Grizzles Check compete in one class.

Indigo Bar (Blue Bar With Heterozygous Indigo): Wing shields body, and tail an even shade of light blue grey. Head, neck, rump, tail and flights a darker shade with the neck feathers showing a rich sheen of green.

Wings to have two distinct rust-red (bronze) bars with the shield area free of any checkering. The tail bar is either faint or light rust red. Beak and toenails: Black

Indigo Check (Blue Check and Blue T-Pattern/Heterozygous Indigo): Same as indigo bar except the wing shields show a distinct and even checkering of blue-gray, black and rust red. See (Check Pattern Notes). Beak and toenails: Black

Andalusian (Spread Blue With Heterozygous Indigo): An even shade of dark blue gray throughout with a delicate black lacing (edging) occurring on the body and wing shields. The breast and neck lightly laced shading gradually to a solid dark blue gray head. The flights and tail blue gray with black shaft. Beak and toenails: Black.

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Recessive Red: A deep even shade of chestnut red throughout with the neck showing a rich sheen of metallic cooper. Plumage free from any blue tints. Beak and toenails: Light horn color.

Recessive Yellow (Dilute Recessive Red): A deep even shade of golden yellow throughout with the neck showing a rich pink sheen plumage free from blue tints. Beak and toenails: Light horn color.

White Self: A clear white throughout. Beak and toenails: very light horn color. (note the Standard for eye color) Whites to have bull eye color.

Pied or Splash: Colored bird with between 1/3 33% to 2/3 67% of its plumage an evenly dispersed white. Beak and toenails: Colored according to the color of the bird

Body Marks: A colored bird with a white tail. Beak and toenails: Colored according to the color of the bird.

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Almond: A rich shade of golden yellow almond with black splashes dispersed throughout. Flight and tail an even variegated combination of almond-yellow, black and white. Beak and toenails: Dark horn color.

Saddle: A white bird with its wing shield areas colored. The ten outside wing feathers (primaries) to be white. Beak and toenails: Appropriately to the color of the shield area

Qualmond: Qualmond bar, qualmond check and qualmond T-Pattern shall compete against each other in the proper sex classes until some future time as the membership feels there are enough numbers to divide them into bar and check classes. Beak and toenails: Dark horn color.

A.O.C. (Any Other Color): This class to include colors and/or patterns not provided for in the Official Color Standard. AOC could, at present, include such colors/patterns as Laced, Reduced, Opals, Toy Stencil, White Sides, Bronzes, Barless, Magpie, any Indigoes except blue heterozygous, Tailmarks, etc. When five or more good quality (in the opinion of the presiding judge) AOC's of a single color/pattern are shown, they shall become a judging class with no separation of the sexes or ages.

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