66 SALMON FLIES 



For the Dee strip-wing and some of the 

 built-wing patterns the tail feathers of various 

 breeds of Turkey cocks come into requisition. 

 The chief colours are speckled grey, cinnamon, 

 white, black white-tip, and mottled brown (the 

 commonest). The black white-tip is not easy 

 to obtain really good, the white being so often 

 dirty grey instead of pure white. For cinna- 

 mon and white I know of no better firm to 

 apply to than Messrs. William Brown, of 54, 

 Union Street, Aberdeen, who also supply fly- 

 tying materials of all sorts and of first-class 

 quality. Turkey tails, capable of producing 

 feathers long enough in the fibre to wing a 

 3-inch iron are not exactly common, and it is 

 useful to know where such feathers can be got. 

 The mottled brown feather is procurable from 

 the ordinary Christmas Turkey, and need cost 

 nothing. It makes a very pretty strip-wing, 

 is an excellent foundation for the plain upright 

 Mallard wings, and comes in useful for mixed- 

 wings. 



The richly-freckled wing and tail feathers of 

 various species of Bustard (including Florican), 

 and the boldly barred black and cinnamon 

 ones from the European species, are invaluable 



