"Durham Ranger" by Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin

Author Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin
Book How to Dress Salmon Flies
Book Edition N/A
Page 211

Material

  • Hook: 1 1/4 to 2 inches
  • Tag: Silver
  • Tail: Golden pheasant topping, Indian Crow
  • Butt: Black herl
  • Body: In equal sections: Lemon floss, orange, fiery brown, and black Seal's fur
  • Rib: Flat silver and twist
  • Hackle: Badger dyed yellow
  • Throat: Light blue
  • Wing: Pair of Jungle Cock feathers, with two pairs of tippets over
  • Sides: Jungle Cock
  • Cheeks: Blue Chatterer
  • Topping: Golden pheasant topping
  • Horns: Blue and Yellow Macaw

Cites list

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Animal Substitutes
Jungle Cock
Macaw

Original material

As written in the book:

(hook, 1 1/4 to 2 inches).
Tag: Silver tinsel.
Tail: A topping and Indian Crow.
Butt: Black herl.
Body: Lemon floss, orange, fiery brown, and black Seal's fur in equal sections.
Ribs: Flat silver tinsel and twist.
Hackle: A badger hackle dyed yellow
Throat: A light blue hackle.
Wings: A pair of Jungle Cock feathers (back to back) covered for three-quarters of their length by two pairs of tippets (back to back), dressed in the manner indicated in Chap. X.
Sides: Jungle Cock.
Cheeks: Blue Chatterer; a topping over.
Horns: Blue and Yellow Macaw.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel Silver      
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Indian Crow
Latin: Pyroderus scutatus
Feather Natural
Butt Ostrich
Latin: Struthio camelus
Herl Black      
Body Floss Lemon      
Seal Fur Orange      
Seal Fur Brown - fiery
Seal Fur Black      
Rib Tinsel - Flat Silver      
Tinsel - Twist Silver      
Hackle Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Badger Yellow      
Throat Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck Blue - Light      
Wing Jungle Cock
Latin: Gallus sonneratii
Cites
Feather - Neck
Back to back
Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck
Two pairs
Natural
Sides Jungle Cock
Latin: Gallus sonneratii
Cites
Feather - Neck Natural
Other Cotinga - Spangled
Latin: Cotinga cayana
Feather Natural
Topping Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Horns Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather - Tail
Blue and yellow
Blue      

Materials in pattern

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