F-W; Colonel Bates

Colonel Bates
Création Col. Joseph D. Bates, Montage Daniel Duval

Hook: Partridge Single Salmon; Code M.
Tag: fine oval silver tinsel and yellow silk floss.
Tail: Golden Pheasant crest, over which are two small strips of red goose and kingfisher.
Butt: Scarlet wool.
Body: Flat silver tinsel.
Ribbing: Oval silver tinsel.
Throat: Natural red game (brown) hackle, followed by Guinea Fowl hackle.
Wing: Four golden yellow saddle hackles, with a white saddle hackle on each side half as long as the yellow. Over this on each side is a fairly wide strip of a yellow Swan wing feathers with thin strips of red swan wing feather married to it, top and bottom. Over this is a wide strip of barred Mandarin Duck.
Topping: Two golden Pheasant crest feathers
Shoulders: Jungle Cock.
Cheeks: Kingfisher.
Head: Black, with red center band.