HIGH WATER TWEED-FLIES. 99 



water; to be dressed on smaller hooks for low 

 water. 



No. 2. Body, blue pig's hair ; long yellow pig's 

 hair tag ; yellow hackle over tag, and light blue 

 hackle from that to the shoulder; silver tinsel 

 over body ; scarlet hackle at head, and under- 

 neath red pig's hair, Wings, white swan's wing- 

 feather ; each wing to be thin and long, and of 

 undivided fibres ; tail, red mohair, mixed with a 

 few fibres of scarlet ibis feather. Hooks as 

 before. 



No. 3. Body, black pig's hair, a long tag of 

 red pig's hair, and between it and the black body 

 a bit of purple pig's hair ; small orange hackle 

 struck over the red tag ; silver tinsel, and purple 

 hackle over the black portion of the body ; ibis 

 body-feather at shoulder, and underneath a bit of 

 red pig's hair. Wings, black and white spotted 

 turkey tail-feather tipped with white ; tail, orange 

 mohair, mixed wdth teal feather, and a small top- 

 ping. Hooks as before. 



No. 4. Body, black spaniel's hair, with a short 

 tag of orange l>ig'3 hair, above which a tag of red 

 and then blue, and over all a purple hackle ; to 

 be ribbed with silver, and blue hackle at the 

 shoulder. Wings, two whole black and white 

 feathers of the snipe, which are found under that 



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