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for tail. Wings, brown mallard, golden pheasant 

 neck and yellow rump-feathers, silver pheasant 

 tail, guinea-hen, and teal feathers ; blue jay and 

 kingfisher at the shoulder, black head and macaw 

 feelers. Hook, No. 6. 



No. 5. Body, gold or orange colour pig's hair, 

 hackle of the same colour, gold tinsel, black ostrich 

 tag, tipped with silver ; tail, a topping. Wings, 

 two toppings, and a rump-feather of the golden 

 pheasant, with a neck-feather hackle-wise at 

 shoulder, over a joint of brown red pig's hair ; 

 macaw feelers, and yellow or orange head. Hook, 

 No. 5 and 6. 



No. 6. Body, half yellow, half puce floss silk, 

 black ostrich tag and red floss silk, tipped with gold 

 tinsel, and topping for tail ; over body, silver tinsel 

 and jay's hackle struck up with it to the shoulder. 

 Wings, brown mallard, guinea-hen, teal, golden 

 pheasant neck-feather, blue peacock fibres, and a 

 topping over all ; macaw feelers, and black ostrich 

 head. Hook, No. 6 and 7. 



I recommend this as an especially good general 

 fly for water of moderate depth and brightness. 



No. 7. Body, to commence with two or three 

 turns of puce, followed up by turns of blue, 

 orange, red and purple floss silk, over which, from 

 tail to shoulder, blue hackle and silver tinsel and 



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