VI PREFACE. 



literature of their favourite sport would 

 be best maintained by keeping the book 

 substantially as it was written.^ 



Not that the work is out of date, or 

 ever can be so long as Mr. Eonalds' 

 admirable series of etchings on copper- 

 plate, done from the natural fly, remain. 

 There has been no development in Blue 

 Duns or Palmers, nor any change in the 

 times and situations, so well described by 

 him, in which the various flies may be 

 expected to produce the desired results 

 when properly exhibited to the expectant 

 trout or grayling. 



But little addition has been made to 

 the first edition in those following it. A 

 more accurate list of the specific names of 

 the flies described, and some slight altera- 

 tions in the directions for tying, most of 

 which were submitted to Mr. Ronalds in 

 Australia, and approved by him, constitute 

 the chief alterations. 



^ Most of the original plates remain, but the effect of time 

 has rendered necessary a certain amount of retouching in a few 

 of them. 



