76 FLY-DRESSING. 



point of colour, mark or mottle, and length of slip or 

 fibre. These in the tying on give the dresser less 

 trouble than when he has to work with detached slips. 



Of mixed wings in Irish fly-hooks, all that is neces- 

 sary to be said I have incorporated in my chapter on 

 salmon-flies, among the general observations appended 

 to a list, there introduced, of Irish favorites. The dub- 

 bing, hackle, tinsels, &c., employed in the construction 

 of our standard killers are also treated of in the same 

 chapter, and I shall not at present fatigue the reader 

 by enlarging upon these subjects. 



