Durham Ranger
Pattern as per Francis Francis
Designed by Mr. Scruton of Durham
Dressed by Brian Ebert
United States

Tip:    Extra-fine oval silver tinsel
Tag:    Yellow floss
Tail:    Golden pheasant crest
Tail Veiling:    Indian crow or substitute
Butt:    Black Ostrich herl
Ribs:    Fine silver lace and narrow flat silver tinsel
Body:    In four equal sections of Golden yellow floss; orange, fiery brown, and black seal's fur or substitute
Hackle:    Badger dyed yellow
Throat:    A light blue hackle
Wing:    A pair of jungle cock feathers, back to back, covered for 3/4 of their length by a pair of golden pheasant tippets, back to back. These are covered by a shorter pair of tippets reaching to, and covering, the second black bar of the first pair. Jungle cock as a wing veiling
Cheeck:    Blue chatterer or substitute with kingfisher
Crest:    Golden pheasant crest
Horns:    Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Head:    Black
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