4/8 AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



a representative one — the "Greenwich fancy," which will 

 serve the double purpose of enlightening the tyro as to the 

 parts of both Trout and Salmon fly — so far at least as the 

 technology of both is concerned. In the Trout-fiy there 

 are necessarily less parts, but the names of those that are 

 present are the same as on the Salmon-fly. The "Green- 

 wich fancy" (fig 28) is thus described: A, tail; B, iron or 

 hook; C, tag; D, butt; E, body; F, throat-hackle (also 

 extending down the body;; G, head; H, loop or gut snell; I, 

 cheeks; J, outer wing; K (topping of golden pheasant), over- 

 wing; L, feeders or horns; M, wingj. 



'Silver Doctor,' is thus described: Tag, silver tinsel and 

 yellow silk. Tail, golden pheasant topping (feather from 

 the crest or top of the head of the bird) ; butt, dark scarlet 

 wool; body, sliver tinsel, flat-ribbed in a wide coil with 

 silver wire; throat-hackle, of guinea-fowl feather and white 

 hackle dyed blue; wings, connected strands of golden pheas- 

 ant-hackle (or tippet, as it is termed) ; wood-duck, pintail 

 duck, golden-pheasant tail, swan (a goose), dyed light 

 yellow and light blue; strips, of mallard and bustard, and 

 the over -wing a topping (golden pheasant crest); horns, 

 blue macaw (fibers from the quill-feather); head, dark- 

 scarlet wool. 



O. — Dark Dun {EpJicincj'idtE). — This fly is made of a new 

 material, with the exception of the legs, which are of horse- 

 hair, of which the interior of the body is also formed. 

 This material is the membrane found on the under sur- 

 face of the large silvery scales of the Tarpon (Silver 

 King, — specific name, inc galops thrissoidcs), found in 

 southern vvatcrs. It is the tt)ughcst membrane in nature, 

 and has several peculiarly valuable properties. First, it 

 is capable of being procured so thin as to be finer 

 than the insect's wing itself. It takes a dye readily, 

 and, when both out and in the water, stands erect, as 

 shown in the illustration. When dry it is rather stiff and 



