236 SALMON FLIES 



5. Silver Partridge* (hook,, f to 1^ inches). 



Tail : The tip of a Golden Pheasant's breast 



feather. 



Body : Flat silver tinsel. 

 Ribs : Fine oval silver tinsel. 

 Hackle : A grizzled hackle. 

 Throat : A freckled brown Partridge hackle. 



6. Spring Grub (hook, 1 to If inches). 



Tag : Silver thread and pale blue floss. 



Tail : " Married " narrow strips of scarlet Ibis and 

 blue and Yellow Macaw (back to back). 



Butt : A badger hackle dyed orange. 



Body : In two equal halves first half, golden 

 yellow floss ; second half- black floss, butted at 

 the joint with pale Blue Game hen's hackle or 

 (when procurable) a natural blue Gallina hackle. 



Ribs : Black Berlin wool over the yellow floss, 

 oval silver tinsel over the black floss. 



Throat : A cochyboiidhu hackle, followed by a 

 richly coloured speckled Grouse hackle. 



7. Tippet Grub f (hook, 1 to If inches). 



Tag : Gold tinsel and scarlet Seal's fur. 



Butt : A tippet (wound as a hackle) followed by 

 a furnace hackle. 



Body : In two equal halves, each beginning with 

 three turns of silver thread, followed by green 

 Berlin wool, butted at the joint with similar 

 feathers and in the same way as for the 

 butt. 



Throat : As for the butts (larger fibred feathers). 



Head : Silver thread. 



* See Plate IX. f See Plate VII. 



