122 RIVER SPEY-FLIES. 



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No. 1. Body, claret floss silk, with some deep 

 yellow-brown pig's hair towards the wings ; orange 

 and black ostrich tag, tipped with silver twist; 

 to be ribbed with silver tinsel and gold twist, 

 claret hackle from tail to shoulder, and round the 

 latter grouse hackle. Wings, two golden pheasant 

 neck-feathers, and a topping, light -brown spotted 

 turkey tail and Argus pheasant, guinea-hen, and 

 golden pheasant tail-feathers ; over the roots of 

 the wings yellow mohair ; black ostrich head, and 

 topping for tail. Hook, No. 3. This is a large- 

 sized spring-fly. 



No. 2. Body, puce floss silk, to be ribbed with 

 gold and silver tinsel and yellow green silk thread, 

 and over all one of the pendant feathers of a brown 

 cock's tail. Wings to lie alonoj the back of the 

 hook, and they are to be made of the fibres of a 

 large brown spotted feather from the turkey's tail. 

 Hook, exceedingly long in the shank, — as long as 

 that of a No. 1. hook, but to be finer in the wire 

 and smaller in the bend. A large mackerel-hook, 

 if well tempered, would do. This is the old 

 standard Spey spring-fly. 



No. 3. Body, tinsel and hackle the same as 



