Ablaq Akhdar

Universally accepted as a foundation house, though keepers differ over how many of its shades are original: some hold that only the dark green is original and that the clear (rayeq) is a Sokrota cross — evidence being its peach bar, its excessive eye opening and its beak structure — a view the author finds closest to correct. Shoulders sky-blue tending to blue with no frosting, with three bars in a very dark grey; cheeks a shade darker than the shoulders and shorter than the hazel-shell's. Pale olive iris and a pale speckled olive-green ring that keepers call clover-coloured.