ing put in the red feathers. Let them remain 

 until by frequent examination they are found to 

 have taken the proper colour. 



3. TO STAIN FEATHERS AN OLIVE DUN, ETC. 



Make a very strong infusion of the outside brown 

 leaves or coating of an onion root, by allowing the 

 ingredients to stand warm by the fire for ten or 

 twelve hours. If dun feathers are boiled in this 

 dye they will become an olive dun ; and white 

 feathers a yellow. If a small piece of copperas be 

 added the latter colour will become a useful muddy 

 yellow, darker or lighter as may be required, and 

 approaching to a yellow olive dun, according to 

 the quantity of copperas used. 



4. TO DYE A MALLARD'S FEATHER FOR THE GREEN DRAKE. 



Tie up some of the best feathers in bunches of 

 a dozen, and boil them in the same mordant of 

 alum as given in No. 1, merely to get the grease 

 out. Then boil them in an infusion of fustick to 

 procure a yellow, and subdue the brightness of 

 this yellow by adding copperas to the infusion. 



5. TO DYE FEATHERS DARK RED AND PURPLE. 



Hackles of various colours boiled (without alum) 

 in an infusion of logwood and Brazil wood dust, 

 until they are as red as they can be made by this 

 means, may be changed to a deeper red by putting 



