AND FOR THE SPEY. 265 



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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 along 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, near the tail, fiery-brown floss- 

 silk ; towards the head, from the centre of the 

 body, orange floss-silk, ostrich tag tipped with 

 silver twist. The body to be ribbed with silver 



