104 MIXED-WING TWEED-FLIES. 



there is to be a jay's hackle. Wings, two top- 

 pings, silver and golden pheasant tail, guinea-hen, 

 mallard, teal, and blue macaw ; head, orange pig's 

 hair, and feelers of blue and yellow macaw. 

 Hook, No. 6, 7, and 8. 



I guarantee this fly as a killer when the regular 

 Tweed-flies fail, especially in summer; indeed, 

 at any period of somewhat low water. With a 

 fly of this pattern tied on a ISTo. 7. hook, Lord 

 Henry Bentinck killed, one day, in the Tweed, 

 fourteen salmon. I should use it as a general fly. 



No. 2. Body, blue pig's hair and yellow tag, 

 ribbed with gold twist and hackle dyed blue; 

 round the shoulder, jay's hackle ; head, red 

 mohair, and a very small topping for tail. Wings, 

 four toppings in the midst of a mixture of bustard, 

 golden pheasant tail and neck- feathers, maUard, 

 Argus pheasant, cock of the rock, guinea-hen, 

 teal, and jungle- cock feathers ; feelers, blue and 

 yellow macaw. Hook, No. 4 and 5. 



A high-water Tweed-fly, presenting one of the 

 best specimens of an attractively mixed wing. 

 By varying the body, making it frequently gaudy, 

 more frequently not, but rather of a sombre hue, 

 you will produce a valuable general fly. 



No. 3. Body, black mohair and yellow tag ; 

 over body, silver tinsel and dark purple hackle, 



