HEAD (5 pts.): Round skull, not too full in front, medium faced. Pearl eyes, dark ceres, and dark beak.

NECK (2 pts.): Short, stout at shoulders, tapering well up to head.

SIZE AND SHAPE (10 pts.): Medium in size, broad chest and shoulders, strong wing butts, body well tapering wedge shape to tip of tail.

PRIMARIES (5 pts.): Short and broad, well overlapping each other when expanded, sound in color throughout in dark and light moilles. A foul secondary may be admissible, but count against it.  In each of the varieties of Show Tipplers, primary and secondary flights must be soundly tipped with black, except in the case of chucks, where secondaries must be all white, 10 X 10.

LEGS AND FEET (3 pts.): Short legs, small feet, bright red in appearance,  free from feathers below the hocks.
COLOR (9 pts.): A rich deep metallic copper sheen.

MARKINGS (8 pts.): Close, as even and distinct as possible.

COLORS

Dark Mottle - Solid colored head, neck and body, including the first row of feathers next to the secondaries known as the bars. The rest of the wings to be as evenly mottle as possible, two colored feathers to each white one. Light Mottle - Evenly moilled all over the body and wings, as near as possible two white feathers to each colored one except the bars, which should be alternate white and colored. Self - Rich, metallic copper color throughout. Light Chuck - The whole of the bird to be white with the exception of a colored chuck, primary flights and tail. Full Flighted Chuck - As light chuck, except that the secondary feathers are colored.

CONDITION AND GENERAL APPEARANCE (8 pts.): Carriage sprightly and erect, hard, short, close and perfect in feather. The whole possessing a rich metallic copper sheen. The color must be rich metallic copper in each of the varieties, with a black bar approximately one half inch from the end of the tail.

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