ON THE COVER

The Bopp-Hale

Designed and dressed by Michel Fontan

Tag: Silver tinsel, white silk with a few strands of think and light blue wound with it.
Tail: A topping and purple cotinga (throat feather of the blue chatterer).
Body: First half of pale blue silk, ribbed with yellow silk, gold and silver tinsel along either side of the yellow silk; second half of cream, light blue and light pink angora goat, well mixed and picked out, ribbed with silver lace.
Hackle: A topping over the goat, wound like a normal hackle.
Throat: Grey heron.
Wings : Argus pheasant, white and like green dyed turkey, scarlet macaw, peacock and Amherst pheasant.
Cheeks: Indian crow.
Collar: Malay peacock pheasant body feather.
Head: Grey ostrich herl.