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a blue heron's dyed. The wing is a mixed wing, witli 

 under wing of gold pheasant ruff with slices of wood- 

 duck over, and over that mixed fibres of gold pheasant 

 tail, bustard, dyed swan various claret, yellow, and orange, 

 speckled peacock and some peacock herls ; blue and red 

 macaw with one tag topping over all. Black head : hook 

 3 inches long, or longer. 



The Wasps undergo a similar transformation. They 

 have gold tinsel tags ; tails with a topping, and a twitch of 

 orange or dirty red wool. 



The Claret Wasp has one-third of the body dirty 

 yellow wool, one-third claret, and one-third dark blue at. 

 shoulder, picked out ; silver tinsel ; hackle of rusty coch- 

 y-bondu with gallina at shoulder; wing, gold pheasant 

 tail, bustard, claret, and orange swan, gold pheasant ruff, 

 pintail, a slip of wood-duck either side ; blue macaw ribs 

 and one topping. 



A Black Wasp. Tag and tail as before ; body, half 

 dirty yellow wool ribbed over with gold tinsel embossed ; 

 hackled with a sort of dirty yellow olive; the other 

 half black wool ribbed with silver tinsel, and with a black 

 hackle and jay at shoulder; wing as before, only with 

 shortish jungle-cock instead of wood-duck. Black head. 



Blue Wasp. Tag, gold twist ; tail, topping ; but, 

 Mack ostrich body; lower half reddish orange wool 

 roughtsh, ribbed with gold thread ; upper half, dark blue; 

 wool ribbed with silver tinsel and twist, and hackled witli 

 a dark mauve more of a violet-coloured hackle with 

 gallina at shoulder ; wing as in claret wasp, with a few 

 blue swan fibres extra ; black head. 



The Tartan (Tay) is also modified. Tag, silver tin- 

 gel; tail, a topping, some sprigs of claret hackle and black 

 partridge ; but, scarlet wool ; body of wool thus : dirty 

 yellow, orange, dark red, claret, darkish blue, claret again 

 and then black; silver tinsel and gold thread; black 



