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am aware, very justly so. I have never done 

 much with it myself perhaps because I have so 

 seldom made use of it. 



15. THE DURHAM RANGER. 



This fly does not take its name from the city of 

 Durham, but from its having been very success- 

 fully used by a party of Durham fishermen when 

 fishing on the Sprowston water. 



Mr. Kelson, who mentions the foregoing, gives 

 the following dressing for this fly, which is one of 

 the very best of all good patterns : 



Tag : Silver twist and light-yellow silk. 



Tail : A topping and an Indian crow. 



Butt : Black ostrich. 



Body : Two turns of orange silk, two turns of 

 dark-orange seal's fur ; the rest, which is about 

 half of black seal's fur, ribbed with flat silver 

 tinsel and fine silver twist, and hackled from 

 the orange seal's fur with a white Coch-y- 

 bonddhu hackle dyed orange. 



Throat : Light-blue hackle. 



Wings : From golden-pheasant tippets in pairs, the 

 shorter overlapping the longer and placed back to 

 back with two long jungle-cock spotted feathers 

 in the middle between the tippet-feathers. 



Cheeks : Chatterer. 



Horns : Blue macaw. 



Head : Black wool. 



