ORIGIN: May be related to the Danish and Dutch Tumblers; they are only bred with a shorter beak, head, and figure.

GENERAL IMPRESSION: Dainty, lively, graceful; smaller the better.

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BREED CHARACTERISTICS

HEAD: Round either plainheaded or crested, well-developed rosettes and rounded crest.

EYES: Pearl colored; ceres narrow and pale, faded red permissible.

BEAK: Barely medium long, preferably shorter, blunt and closed. Color white; in blue, silver, and isabel darker permissible; wattles soft.

NECK: Short, pulled back and bent toward back; throat rather sharply cut out.

BREAST: Round, wide, protruding; stomach filled out.

BACK: Straight, rather short, a bit sloping.

WINGS: Lying on tail.

TAIL: Medium long, closed, minimum 12 feathers.

LEGS: Short, clean legged.

PLUMAGE: Well developed, wide but not long.

COLOR VARIETIES:
Magpie (Elster): black, red, yellow, blue, silver, and isabel.
Colored Tail: black, red, yellow, blue, and silver.
Selfs in white only.
White-tailed: black, red, yellow, blue, silver, isabel, and blue check.
White-flighted and White-tailed: black, red, yellow, blue, silver, and isabel.

COLOR AND MARKINGS:
Magpie: all colors intensive. Blue, silver, and isabel without any dark shading on neck; complete magpie pattern, the heart marking not too wide or not too narrow; sharp dividing line on breast and tail.
Colored Tail: white until tail which is intensely colored above and below.
White: pure white.
White-tailed: all colors intensive; blue, silver, and isabel without shading on neck; colored until tail; narrow, intensely colored bars for blue, silver, and isabel.
White-flighted and White-tailed: All colors intensive; blue, silver, and isabel without shading on neck; 7 - 10 pure white flights preferably like number, if possible also upper wing covering white, but feathers on wing buffs colored. The white-tail must be with the 7th to 9th flights match up. Intensively colored bars in blue, silver, and isabel.

GROSS FAULTS:

For all color varieties:
• Coarse or too long bodies.
• Cornered head.
• Open beak.
• Red eye cere.

Magpie:
• Colored thighs.
• Colored feathers on wings, on stomach, under wings and hind part.
• Slate in wing feathers, beard, different from beak in color.
• White feathers in tail.
• White feathers in eye area.

Colored Tailed:
• White under tail or slate in tail.
• Color other than beak.
• Fault with tail (count or color).

Whites:
• Colored beak.

White-tailed:
• White on shoulders (inside the butts).
• Bluish color under wings of reds and yellow, on lower back or stomach.
• Running rusty colored bars on blue, silver, or isabel.
• Colored feathers on lower rump.
• Missing tail feathers.
• Colored under tail.
• Wrong beak color.
• Colored feathers in tail.
• White feathers in eye area.

White-flighted and White-tailed:
• White feathers in eye area in beard.
• White belly or thigh feathers.
• Mis-colored lower rump feathers with blue, silver, or isabel.
• Colored under tail.
• Colored flight between white ones.
• Incorrect number of tail feathers.
• False colored beak.

EVALUATION: Overall appearance - Head - Beak - Body size - Color and pattern - Cere color