nicksiders
1344 posts
Feb 04, 2007
12:46 AM
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The Birmingham Roller is a small, neat bird, with wings carried upon the tail. Nowadays it is usually clean-legged, though occasionally a feather-legged specimen is seen. The head should be neither flat nor with the full frontal of the Long-face, but should have a smooth oval sweep from beak to back of the skull. The beak should be of medium length; the eye stright-set, centrally placed, and with keenness of expression.
The colors of the Birmingham Roller, as might be expected (since the breed was selected for performance rather than for uniformity of plumage), are considerably varied and nearly all colors occur. Dietz (1929) enumerates selfs in black, reds, yellows, duns, whites, almonds, blues, and silvers. He also mentions white-flights, white-tails, beards, badges, baldheads, saddles, and bell-necks. In addition to these colors, Birmingham Rollers also occur in spangles, mottles (black and white), grizzles, checkers, duns, mealies, rosewings, and whitesides. The colors are unimportant and these numerous colors have been obtained through the mating of selected good performers regardless of thier plumage.
The Pigeon by Wendell M. Levi
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