SIDES AND CHEEKS 157 



By the time both pairs of tippets and both 

 pairs of Jungle Cock feathers have been tied 

 in there should still be a small piece of hook- 

 shank uncovered to the right of the silk, and 

 all the waste stumps should be lying on the 

 top of the shank, as indicated in Fig. 74, which 

 also shows the silk wound back to the left and 



FIG. 74. 



the Blue Chatterer cheeks tied in, these latter, 

 like the other paired feathers, being placed 

 immediately to the side of, but covering the 

 bases of, the preceding small Jungle Cock 

 feathers. 



Cut off the stumps close up to the bare 

 piece of shank slightly on a slant with the 

 curved-bladed scissors, at the same time press- 



