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No. 2. Body, light brown olive fur and hackle, 

 gold tinsel ; tail, same as before ; golden yellow 

 tag, a very short joint of grey fur between the tag 

 and olive fur; wings as before, jay hackle outside 

 them ; blue or deep-red head. 



No. 3. Amber colour tag ; tail as before ; one 

 third the body next the tail grey fur, remainder 

 dark bright green fur and same coloured hackle ; 

 blood-red head ; wings as before, with the addition 

 of some green peacock sprigs. 



No. 4. Tag, golden yellow silk, close to which 

 two turns of black ostrich harl; body, claret or 

 puce silk, over which a golden olive hackle and 

 silver tinsel; jay round the shoulder outside the 

 wing, which must be rather gaudy, and have 

 a few fibres of red parrot feather; head, black 

 ostrich. 



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No. 1. Gold colour silk tag; body, squirrel and 

 hedgehog's fur mixed ; green olive and blood-red 

 hackle over body ; silver twist, pale yellow and 

 blood-red hackle laid side by side under shoul- 

 der ; wings, fibres of the golden pheasant breast- 

 feathers, mallard, turkey, blue macaw, red and 

 green parrot and green peacock; black ostrich 

 head. 



No. 2. Orange silk tag, near it black ostrich 

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