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they may be divided up into two or more 

 kinds). 



Any of these may be combined one 

 with another (e.g. , tinsel with fur, fur with 

 silk, silk with tinsel), and they may have 

 two or more joints i.e., butted with herl, 

 and veiled with certain feathers, such as 

 Indian Crow and Toucan breast feathers ; 

 or the joints may be just simply separated 

 from each other by a few turns of hackle, 

 as in the majority of grubs. 



Bodies of silk and tinsel are very com- 

 monly jointed. Less commonly bodies 

 are made of crewel, Berlin wool, natural 

 fur, Peacock herl, Ostrich herl, or quill. 



E is the Ribbing. The ribbing is practically 

 always of tinsel in any of its varieties. In 

 flies ribbed with flat tinsel and possessing 

 a body hackle, twist is used as well, and is 

 wound behind the tinsel as a protection 

 to the hackle. 



-Fis the Hackle (/'being the body or ribbing 

 hackle,/' the throat hackle ', or just simply 

 the throat}. Some flies have only a throat 

 hackle, others have a ribbing hackle as 

 well, and in these the throat may be of a 



