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gold ; tail, a small topping and a few fibres of the 

 wood-duck's feather ; black hackle, thin and short 

 over body, teal hackle at the shoulder. Wings, 

 two toppings, bustard, cream-coloured turkey and 

 wood-duck feathers, and black ostrich head. 

 Hook, No. 7. A famous summer's evening fly. 



Thalia. — Body, orange floss silk, orange 

 hackle, gold tinsel, cock of the rock's hackle under 

 shoulder, and over shoulder blue jay hackle. 

 Wings, two toppings, brown Argus pheasant tail- 

 feather, bustard, and blue kingfisher feather at 

 each side of the wings ; black head, and blue and 

 yellow macaw feelers. 



EuPHROSYNE. — Body, bronze peacock harl, 

 gold tinsel and a short-fibred claret hackle or 

 hackles to be wound with close regularity from 

 the tail to the wings ; orange tag, gold tip, tail, 

 two toppings. Wings, long, delicate and super- 

 incumbent, and of brown Argus pheasant tail- 

 feather, golden pheasant tail and long-topping ; 

 at each side the wings, short pieces of silver 

 pheasant tail-feather ; head, green peacock's harl. 



These are the three last patterns of Salmon- 

 flies I shall describe. Their beauty cannot be 

 surpassed. The first is an exquisite imitation of 

 a silver-hued moth, spangled with gold on the 

 body and with various colours on the wings. 



