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Horns : Blue macaw. 

 Head : Black ostrich. 



The Jock Scott is usually dressed as above. 

 Some patterns vary slightly, but this, given by 

 Mr. Kelson, is the best. 



25. THE BLUE JOCK SCOTT. 



This is a variety of the foregoing fly, and it 

 makes an excellent change to the latter. I 

 believe this fly is the invention of Mr. Basil Field. 

 The difference between it and the ordinary Jock 

 Scott consists in the upper portion of the body 

 (the apron, as it is termed) being blue instead of 

 black. Mr. Field makes use of scarlet ibis and 

 chatterer, together with the topping in the tail 

 instead of the Indian crow. The blue portion is 

 not hackled throughout, but at the throat alone, 

 where a blue hackle is covered with a hackle from 

 the widgeon. I think, unless I am very much 

 mistaken, that the cheeks are blue kingfisher's 

 feathers in place of the chatterer ; but such differ- 

 ence is immaterial, the one feather answering the 

 purpose as well as the other. 



The blue Jock Scott has done some wonderfully 

 good work on the Test, where it is a special . 

 favourite. 



26. THE KENDLE. 



This fly is also the invention of Mr. Basil 

 Field, who named it after my friend Mr. Kendle. 



