148 ROD AND RIVER 



FLIGHT'S FANCY. 

 Wings : Patent starling. 

 Body : Very pale yellow floss silk, ribbed with 



fine flat gold. 

 Hackle and tails : Pale buff Cochin cock's hackle, 



or pale honey dun. 



Hook o, oo or ooo . 



ALDAM'S INDIAN YELLOW. 

 Wings : From the inside of a young goose or 



pale coot's wing. 

 Body : Russia-leather-coloured floss silk, ribbed 



with bright lemon-coloured tying-silk. 

 Hackle and tails : Pale buff-coloured Cochin cock. 

 Head : Three or four turns of orange tying-silk. 



Hook o or oo. 



An excellent grayling fly, invented by Mr. 

 Aldam. 



LITTLE MARRYAT. 



Wings : Palest starling. 



Body : Fur from the flank of the Australian 



opossum. 

 Hackle or tails : Pale buff Cochin cock. 



Hook oo or ooo. 



HARE'S EAR. 



(A hare's-ear dressing of the yellow dun.) 

 Wings : Pale starling. 

 Body : Pale primrose silk. 



