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and gold pheasant tail over it mixed with slices of blue, pale red, orange 

 and yellow swan : head black. 



The Claret. Tag, gold twist and gold floss ; tail, a topping and strips 

 of blue and red macaw ; butt, black ostrich ; body, three turns of orange 

 floss, the rest medium reddish claret pig's wool, stoutish gold thread ; a 

 light reddish claret hackle, commencing about halfway down the body, 

 with a couple of turns of black hackle at shoulder ; under wing a tippet 

 feather, and over it mixed fibres of gold pheasant's tail, turkey, bustard, 

 and peacock, fibres of green and red parrot thrown in, and one topping 

 over all ; ribs, blue macaw, and black head. Size of hook from 4 to 10 

 or 11. 



The Guinea Hen is a specimen of a trimmed fly, -i.e., the hackle is 

 trimmed or clipped from the breast, whilst at the back it is left to fall 

 downwards, in order to form a part of the wing. Tag, orange floss ; tail, 

 a topping ; body, medium blue floss ; hackle, guinea hen, small speckled, 

 laid on pretty thick and trimmed off the breast, silver twist ; wings, gold 

 pheasant tail and tippet, mixed fibres, with guinea hen and teal and yellow 

 fibre ; blue macaw ribs ; head, peacock's tail. 



Black and Teal. Tag, silver twist and golden floss ; tail, one topping ; 

 butt, black herl ; body, two turns of orange floss, the rest black (either 

 floss, horsehair, mohair, or unlaid sewing silk) in large flies five is often 

 used ; -broadish silver tinsel ; black hackle, over three-parts of the body ; 

 gallina (the duck feather, with the large round spots, not the small 

 speckled grey) on the shoulder ; wings, double jungle cock, with topping 

 over them, and two good-sized teal, or the small feather of the black 

 partridge, one on either shoulder, to form a body to the wing ; head, gold 

 thread. This is Mr. Francis's own pattern of dressing the fly, and a 

 good one it seems to be. It is one of the best ever used on the Spey or 

 Tay. 



The Namsen. Tag silver twist ; tail one topping, some red parrot and 

 pintail sprigs ; body roughish ; two turns of bright yellow pig's wool, 

 merged into deep orange, and that into medium red claret, and that again 

 iuto bright medium, or inclining to darkish blue, upper part of claret and 

 blue, tied in roughly for picking out, the blue the longest of course ; 

 silver tinsel with gold thread beside it ; longish black hackle on shoulder ; 

 wing slips of dark turkey, bright bustard ; bottom wing red, blue, and 

 greenish dyed swan ; head black. Size from 4 or 5 to 9 or 10. This is 

 a peculiar species of fly. Tag gold twist ; tail a topping, but two turns 

 of peacock herl. The body is in three joints ; the lowest is yellow, the 

 middle one blue, and the upper one orange floss. At every joint there 

 is a turn or two of peacock herl, and pointing downwards like a hackle are 

 three or four of the small red feathers in the breast of an Indian crow. 



