PORTUGUESE TUMBLER

(Note Of Translator: The following translation from German is extremely rough,
but I lack the ability to fine tune it. --- Tatiana Scherbatov)

Origin: Portugal

General impression: Very small pigeon; briefly; somewhat put up attitude of race features:

Head: Small, rounded off edges, flattened vertex, full, broad forehead, which rises almost steeply. Back of the head well rounded off changing into the neck.

Eyes: Pearl-colored, small Aederchen permits; Cere narrow, color depending upon plumage colour brightly to dark.

Beak: Centrallong, almost horizontally put in; slim, the extended bill cut runs under the eye, depending upon plumage colour brightly to dark; Warts small, knows.

Neck: Briefly, fully coming from the broad chest portion, to the throat itself tapering.

Chest: Broadly and before-curved, well rounded.

Back: Broadly, briefly, sloping, itself to the rear strongly tapering.

Wing: Briefly, strongly, covering, the tail end almost achieving the backs.

Tail: Briefly, well closed, with the back a line forming.

Legs: Scarcely centrallong, smoothly; Claw colour without meaning.

Plumage: Tautly lying close.

Colour impacts: White, black, Dun, red, yellow, darkness, blue with black barring, Dominant red, Dominant yellow, blue-pale, red-pale, yellow-pale, blue, blue, red, yellow, black bronze, dark bronze, blue bronze, Zeifarbig - black - Dun - blue - red - yellow; Three-colored - bronze - sulfur; Multicolor; Blue Grizzle; Storked - black - blue - red - yellow.

Colour and markings: All colours purely. With black -, the basic colour is more or less covered for dark and dark bronze with bronze. Blauschimmel have a blue basic colour with more or less white storages. Two-colored ones have irregular white storages. Three-colored ones are oversubscribed Dark Storked with bronze or sulfur storages. Multicolor ones have on cream - to almond-colored reason as evenly as possible distributed Sprenkeln and feathers/springs in different colours. Hand rockers and tail are whitish to cream or almond colored with more or less dark sample feathers/springs. The markings of the Multicolor ones becomes darker with the age. Taeubinnen are ever more weakly drawn than Taeuber! Storks have white basic colour with as much as possible colored hand rockers and a if possible through-colored tail. Colored head and colored throat are aimed at!
 

Gross errors: Long, narrow or awkward body; horizontal attitude; High status; rounded vertex; flatten forehead; too longer or to strong bill; strongly lowered bill; too much red in the iris; Hanging wing; strong color and lack of drawing.

Evaluation: General impression - type - attitude - status - heading - beak - eyes - color and markings.

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