108 AN IRISH COSMOPOLITE. 



mallard, and cream-coloured spotted turkey. 

 Hook, No. 5. 



This fly, which is a good one, might be much 

 improved, by dressing it on a No. 6 or 7. hook, 

 making the body long and tapering, and winding 

 over it, by the tinsel, a good short-fibred old 

 black cock's hackle, and putting a short topping 

 for tail. 



A DEADLY Irishman's Summer Shin-Fly. 

 — Body, yellow floss silk, ribbed with gold 

 tinsel ; dark brown tag ; bright blue hackle over 

 body, and to be full at the shoulder. Wings, 

 fibres of the following feathers : Himalayan 

 pheasant crest-feather, brown turkey, golden 

 pheasant tail and red rump-feather, blue macaw 

 body-feather, golden pheasant neck-feather, 

 guinea-hen, green-sword peacock's feather, small 

 topping ; feelers, blue and yellow macaw ; head, 

 reddish brown ; tail, small topping, mixed with 

 golden pheasant neck-feather, ibis, and mallard. 

 Hook, No. 7, 8, and 9. 



The wing of this fly is most attractively mixed, 

 and its attractions will not be confined to the 

 Shin. If dressed on No. 4 and 5. hooks, it will 

 kiU in full water in any river in the empire. 

 With me it is a standard fly. 



Flies for the Eiver Laxford. — No. 1. 



