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feather from the neck of a peacock, and a few strands 

 of yellow and scarlet lucan breast and neck feathers ; 

 body, hackled with claret stained hackle, wound over 

 with gold twist (heavy round) and bright-coloured 

 silk ; legs, dark blue hackle, and guinea-fowl feather 

 overall; wings, golden pheasant's tail feather, ditto 

 neck or tippet feathers for sides, blue chatterer's over 

 all ; head, peacock's herl. 



(The Tarn o' Shanter.) Tag, red silk silver twist 

 (round) ; tail, a few yellow and red spires of macaw 

 feathers, helped with a few strands of blue or green 

 peacock's neck feather ; body, pig's wool, navy blue, 

 with broad flat silver twist ; legs, rich fiery brown 

 hackle ; wings, bustard feather ; sides of ditto, Ameri- 

 can wood duck feather ; a few strands of argus 

 pheasant's dark feather to be also added in larger flies. 



(The Mac Sporren.) Tag, flat silver, and blue 

 silk. Body, fiery brown pig's wool ribbed with round 

 gold twist ; legs, orange and purple, hackled 

 (stained) ; wings, golden pheasant, red sides tail 

 feathers ; toppings, large strands of albatross wing 

 feather ; streamers, red and green over all, kingfisher's 

 feathers, or blue chatterer. 



The following are well-known dressings : 



(Jock Scott.) Tag, gold twist ; tail, one golden 

 pheasant topping, and Indian crow feather ; body in 

 two parts ; head, part black floss silk, with silver twist 

 and palmered black hackle; tail ditto, gold coloured; 

 at each joint is tied several toucan points, these 

 being backed up by two turns of black herl. For 

 wings, white tipped turkey feather fibres of pintail 



