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wing should keep to its corresponding side 

 of the middle line. 



(ii.) Whole- Feather Wings. These are 

 composed of entire feathers (e.g., Golden 

 Pheasant tippet and sword feather, Jungle 

 Cock neck) set on upright in pairs, back 

 to back.* 



(iii.) Mixed- Wings, which are made up 

 of a number of single strands of various 

 feathers " married " to each other in one 

 continuous "sheath." 



(iv.) Built- Wings. f These have as a 



* By "back to back" is meant the direct apposition of 

 the under or inner surfaces i.e., the outer or "best" 

 surfaces showing on each side. 



f The distinction between "mixed" and "built" wings 

 is in practice rather a fine one. Strictly speaking, a mixed- 

 wing is composed of a number of single strips of several 

 different kinds of feather. Not uncommonly these are 

 tied on in a bunch anyhow, but usually all the fibres are 

 carefully " married " one to another in a certain definite 

 order. The appearance of a carefully mixed wing gives 

 one the impression of a Persian carpet a conglomeration 

 of a multitude of colours. 



A built-wing, on the other hand, is constructed on 

 bolder lines, and the essential thing about it is, that 

 instead of being tied on all at once, it is built in stages, 

 one portion above another, but in such a manner that, 

 like the tiles of a roof, the portions underneath are left 

 exposed by those immediately above them. Very often 



