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The head is of scarlet crewel. The fly is dressed upon any sized hook, 

 from No. 6 to No. 10, to suit the water. 



The Silver Doctor. Tag, silver tinsel ; tail, gold pheasant topping, the 

 turn of red crewel over the stump of it for the butt ; body, silver tinsel ; 

 hackle, blue as before, with a brown hackle at the shoulder and a small 

 speckled gallina over it ; wing chiefly of pintail, with a few red and blue 

 fibres and toppings over it ; red crewel head. Size as before. 



The Colonel. There are two ways of dressing this fly. The colour of 

 the one is a bright gold or yellow, and that of the other a red gold or 

 orange. Tag, gold twist, and two turns of bright yellow floss ; tail, red 

 and yellow sprigs mixed with gallina, and a topping ; no butt ; body yellow 

 floss half way up, then orange pig's wool ; over this is ribbed, side by 

 side, gold twist and tinsel and black floss first the twist, then the tinsel, 

 then the black silk ; yellow hackle from tail to head, bustard hackle at 

 shoulder ; under wing gold pheasant tippet, two feathers rather short ; 

 on either side of these strips of bustard and argus pheasant (the dark 

 small speckled feather), fibres of yellow thrown in here and there, and 

 over all a topping, with blue macaw ribs, black head. For the orange 

 variety read orange for yellow. Sizes vary from Nos. 4 to 8. 



The Major. Tag, silver twist and ruby floss ; tail, fibres of bustard ; 

 hackle, tippet and a topping ; body, composite, viz., two turns of medium 

 blue, ditto of dark orange, about four or five of bright scarlet, and two 

 more of blue pig's wool ; over this silver and gold twist side by side ; a 

 red claret hackle, commencing from the orange wool, the blue wool picked 

 out in longish fibres at the shoulder, over this a bustard hackle, then the 

 wing, and over that a yellow hackle. The wing is composed of white ribbed 

 snipes' feather, with longish tippet on either side, over this bustard and 

 gold pheasant's tail in strips, with red, blue, and greenish yellow fibres ; 

 over all a topping ; black head. 



The Black Ranger. Tag silver twist and golden floss, tail the bright 

 red breast feather of an Indian crow and a topping ; butt, two turns of 

 black ostrich ; body, two or three turns of golden floss, ditto of bright fiery 

 red pig's wool, and the remainder of the body black, silver tinsel, and 

 twist ; very dark blue hackle, extending from the red mohair, black hackle 

 at shoulder ; wing a pair of long jungle cock feathers, a trifle longer than 

 the hook, doubled (that is, a short feather and a long one laid over to- 

 gether, the long one underneath) ; tippet feathers over them, topping 

 over all ; blue macaw ribs, a kingfisher at the cheeks. 



The Blue Ranger. Tag silver twist and gold coloured floss ; tail as 

 before, but black ostrich ; body, gold coloured floss, and fiery red wool, as 

 before, bright blue pig's wool for the rest of the body; blue hackle, a 

 shade darker from about the middle of the wool of the shoulder ; gallina 



