Guinea breast or flank feathers dyed silver doctor blue. This is also a substitute for Kenya crested guinea feathers

Kingfisher feathers, or white neck feathers from a ringneck pheasant dyed Kingfisher Blue. Also, various small parrots may have useful substitutes.

Oak-brown mottled turkey tails or secondary wing feathers are excellent substitutes. Alternate is finely mottled peacock wing secondaries. (The "wrong" side of the peacock feather is a close match. It is better than the "good" side. But sometimes the feather fibers are soft at the tip, and do not marry well.)

Substitutes are made by dyeing a dark gray and white turkey wing feather, or side tail feather from a silver pheasant creamy tan. Alternate method is to dye a white turkey tail, or goose feather, the base color; then mark the dark brown bars with a water based marking pen (see dyeing instructions).

Bright orange dyed webby saddle or hen neck hackle. Color can vary to a reddish -orange.

Long fibered rump feathers from a ringneck pheasant, or schalapen [sic] hackle, dyed either gray or black. Also the ruff feathers from a Ruffed Grouse is a good substitute for black. heron. For gray, blue eared pheasant is used; and, if available, victoria crown pigeon.

Dyed feathers from the white band on a cock ringneck pheasant; or dyed hen hackles, or buff-colored body feathers from a hen pheasant dyed scarlet.

None.

None.

For simple strip-wings substitute brown-mottled turkey wing strips to create a more durable pattern.

Mallard flank and body feathers.

Gray mottled turkey tail is used as a substitute.

White turkey tail feathers, or goose shoulder (nashurias), dyed to the desired color.

Small hen hackle, or white ringneck pheasant collar, dyed gold to golden orange. You only need to use one of these feathers in place of 6 of the natural. Also, various small yellow bird feathers, too include small parrot (Lori, parakeet, budgie) feathers.

None. Body feathers are lavender and black, solid blue, barred white and black; throat feathers are blue fringed.