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… large size, with a pair of big, outspreading hooks, the body composed of divers coloured pig’s wool, blue, yellow, and green as thick as a man’s little finger, with a large heron’s or other hackle for legs; for the wings two eyes from a peacock’s tail, with a few showy hackles, wide gold or silver foil, and a tail of various coloured hackles; at the head two glass beads are strung on to represent eyes. This which is more like a good sized hummingbird than anything else, is cast and worked like a fly.

Francis Francis, A Book of Angling, 1867.