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Tag: Silver tinsel
Tail: Golden pheasant crest and a

pair of jungle cock feathers, back to back
Body: In two equal parts. Rear half, silver

tinsel veiled above and below with a pair

(or two pairs) of blue chatterer, back to back.

Front half, black floss
Rib: Fine oval silver tinsel over flat silver

tinsel; broader oval gold tinsel over black floss
Hackle:  A black heron's hackle (or equivalent such as blue-eared pheasant dyed black) over black floss.
Throat: Speckled gallina (guinea fowl)
Wing:  Cinnamon or white turkey tail strips, set flat

Source:   T.E. Pryce-Tannatt (1914)

How to Dress Salmon Flies.

London: Adam and Charles Black..