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No. 3. Black floss silk body, silver tinsel and 

 lemon colour hackle over it ; orange tag, dark 

 head, and wings and hook as before. 



No. 4. Body, all blue or purple floss silk, over 

 which a blue hackle ; yellow head, and wings and 

 hook as before. 



I now come to six much smaller flies for the 

 river Shannon. They are used in the summer 

 and autumn months, chiefly for grilse, or, as they 

 are called in Ireland, *^ salmon peal." 



At the head of them stands the " Goldfinch," 

 — that beauty standing first in the frontispiece, 

 and described in writing at p. 86. Then comes 



No. 2. It is to be similar to the " Gold- 

 finch," except that its body is to be of light- 

 green floss silk. 



No. 3. Body, claret floss silk, gold tinsel, and 

 blue jay hackle over it ; orange tag, and black 

 ostrich head. Wings, broken-up fibres of blue, 

 yellow, and red macaw, guinea-fowl, and golden 

 pheasant tail-feathers ; over the wings, one or 

 two toppings. Hook, No. 5 and 6. 



I consider this one of the best types of a 

 gaudily mixed wing, and one that would suit 

 bodies of other flies, made of materials of plain, 

 quaker-like colours. 



No. 4. Body like the last ; but a guinea-fowl's. 



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