INDEX. 137 



Wax, " Athenian's " recipe, 54. 



How to remove from fingers, 55. 

 Liquid and transparent, 53. 

 Paraffin, its use to the fly-dresser, 57. 

 Wet flies, how to dress (Amateur's method), 65-71). 



how to dress (Professional's method), 81-2. 

 " Whip finish, "how to make, 77. 



Method illustrated, 78. 

 Whisks of rabbits, &c., as tails, 31. 

 Wings, as a rule made too broad, 127. 

 May fly, 31, 122. 

 Materials for, 27-31. 

 Preparation of (wet flies), 72-3. 



(dry flies), 99-100, 102-4. 

 Preparation from rook quills, 27-8. 

 Eeversed, 117-20. 

 Rolled, 102. 



Various colours, including white tipped .with 

 black roots, black tipped with white 

 roots, white tipped with dun roots, stone 

 blue, iron blue, reddish, dark cinnamon, 

 olive brown, black, mottled, dark dun. 

 dingy brown, speckled, "March brown," 

 black and white barred, and where each 

 obtained, 28-31. 



Woodcock, as a fly-dresser's bird, 30. 

 Wool, a body material, 33. 

 Wren, as a fly-dresser's bird, 40. 



