Material

• Hook: No. 6 to No. 10
  
• Tag: Fine gold twist, three or four turns
• Tail: Gold pheasant topping
• But: A turn of scarlet crewel
• Body: Pale blue floss silk
• Hackle: Blue, slightly darker than body silk, from tail to head. Variation: Blue jay
• Rib: Silver tinsel. Optional on larger flies: silver twist
• Throat: Optional brown grouse, partridge, or bustard
• Wing: Mixed. Bustard, dark turkey, argus pheasant and claret, blue, and yellow swan. Swan predominant in the wing. For smaller flies: Mallard and pintail
• Head: Scarlet crewel

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Original material

As written in the book:

Commencing, then, at the bend of the hook, tie on as a tag three or four turns of fine gold twist. Tail, a single gold pheasant topping, over this, as a but, a turn of scarlet crewel; body, pale blue floss silk, with hackle a shade or two darker, wound on from tail to head (this is varied at times with blue jay's feather); silver tinsel (in large flies of all kind the tinsel may be rendered more conspicuous by the addition of some twist wound on beside it). At the shoulder a brown grouse, partridge, or bustard hackle may be wound on; a blue jay is sometimes used over the blue hackle. The wing is a mixed wing, containing fibres of bustard, dark turkey, argus pheasant, and claret, blue, and yellow fibres of stained swan feathers, the latter predominating. In smaller flies mallard and pintail are introduced. The head is of scarlet crewel. This fly is dressed upon any sized hook, from about No. 6 to No. 10, to suit the water.

Long material list

Part	Material	Type	Color
Tag		Tinsel - Twist Fine, three or four turns	Gold
Tail	Pheasant - Golden Latin: Chrysolophus pictus	Feather - Head	Natural
Other		Crewel One turn	Scarlet
Body		Floss - Silk Pale blue	Blue
Hackle	Chicken - Cock Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus	Feather - Neck Slightly darker than body	Blue
Rib		Tinsel Optional silver twist	Silver
Throat	Grouse	Feather Optional, or partridge/bustard	Brown
Wing	Kori Bustard Latin: Ardeotis kori Cites	Feather	Natural
	Turkey Latin: Genus: Meleagris	Feather Dark
	Pheasant - Argus Latin: Argusianus argus	Feather	Natural
	Swan Latin: Genus: Cygnus	Feather - Wing	Claret
	Swan Latin: Genus: Cygnus	Feather - Wing	Blue
	Swan Latin: Genus: Cygnus	Feather - Wing	Yellow
Head		Crewel	Scarlet

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