Durham Ranger
Pattern as per Francis Francis
Designed by Mr. Scruton of Durham
Dressed by Jerome Molloy
Canada

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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