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(iii) The female blue tiprigJit. 



Body — Stripped peacock hcrl, tied to show 



a white tip to the body. 

 Legs and ivings — Smoky bhie cock's hackle. 

 Hooks — Nos. 00 to 4. 

 Tying silk — Claret. 



(iv) The blue up rig Jit. 



Body — Peacock herl stripped. 



Legs and zviugs — Dark blue gamecock's 



hackle. 

 Whisks — Same. 

 Llooks — Nos. 00 to 4. 

 Tying silk — Claret. 



Devonshire has eight out of the seventeen 

 Fishery Districts of the southern counties. These 

 Districts are administered by Boards of Con- 

 servators, who deal with matters relating to the 

 close seasons for various fish, the issue of licenses, 

 &c., and whose powers often extend to the sea for 

 a distance of three miles from the shore, or to the 

 mid-channel in estuaries. The Boards consist of 

 conservators appointed by the County Councils 

 every year, from those qualified by ownership of 

 land or fisheries of a certain value, and of repre- 

 sentative members, elected annually by persons who 

 have paid Hcense duty on instruments other than 

 rod and line used for salmon-fishing in public 

 waters. The Devonshire Fishery Districts are the 

 following : — Axe (Beer Head to Portland Bill), 

 Otter (Ottermouth to Beer Head), Exe (Clerk 

 Rock to Ottermouth), Tcign (Hope Ness to Clerk 

 Rock), Dart (Start Point to Hope Ness), Avon 

 (Stoke Point to Start Point), Tamar and Plym 

 (Rame Head to Stoke Point), and Taw and 



