Asfar Waraq

A foundation colour. The body is white throughout, but not a brilliant white — a white leaning to a very pale cream, so that at a distance the bird reads as white and only up close, especially in sunlight, does the true colour show. The neck carries a sheen and shows the colour a little more strongly than the body. White iris with a pale wine ring. The word waraq (paper) is applied to this shade alone — never to a Mawardi or a Hagari — because no other strain in the house is so slight and so light in the hand.