MODEL WELSH AND SCOTCHMEN. 95 



guinea-hen feathers ; wings, divided and of 

 unseparated fibres of slips from the bustard or 

 peacock's wing, or from a cinnamon brown and 

 dark mottled turkey tail-feather; feelers, blue 

 and yellow macaw ; head, bronze peacock harl. 

 Hook, Xo. 5. 



This is an admirable specimen of a Welsh fly 

 for moderately deep and not over bright water. 

 In the spring it will kill in the Wye, the Eske, 

 the Conway, and the Tivy ; and, if dressed of a 

 smaller size, it will prove a general summer-fly 

 for the salmon-rivers of Wales. 



Xo. 15. TOPPY. — Body, black pig's w^ool or 

 bullock's hair, slightly ribbed with gold or silver 

 tinsel ; tag, crimson silk or mohair, next to it 

 two turns of red hackle ; black hackle up the 

 body ; tail, yellow mohair picked out ; wings, 

 black feather from a turkey's tail, tipped with 

 white ; head, crimson mohair. Hook, Xo. 5, 6, 

 and 7. 



This is a standard Tweed-fly. Each wing of 

 strips of undivided fibres is put on separately. 

 They are therefore fully divided, and project 

 over and by the hook, like the slightly opened 

 blades of a pair of scissors. The wings of the 

 generality of home-made standard Tweed-flies 

 open in the same fasliion, and so do many of the 



