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on previous occasions satisfactory. This fly has no 

 name that I am aware of; in fact, I go so far as to 

 imagine myself the inventor ; but whether my title is 

 good or not to this honour, I will give its description, 

 pro bono publico. Wings from the wing feathers of the 

 bustard (a bird now to be found in quantity only on 

 the steppes of southern Russia or Tartary : in plumage 

 and colour it much resembles the wild turkey, whose 

 feathers, I have no doubt, would answer equally well), 

 with a few strands of the scarlet macaw or ibis mixed 

 with it. Body of two colours, equally divided ; upper 

 portion of dark blue mohair, lower of gingery red, a 

 red hackle round the lower portions of body, and a 

 black round the upper. A band of silver tinsel, if for 

 a bright day, and gold> if for a dark one, wrapped 

 carefully and regularly between the hackles ; the whole 

 terminating with a scarlet tail either of ibis or worsted, 

 the latter I prefer. To say that this fly has not been 

 tried previously might be deemed presumptuous ; but 

 this I will say, that when I first made it, I had 

 no pattern, neither did I try to copy anything I 

 had seen. I have used it in many waters, and inva- 

 riably with success, although I am aware that fre- 

 quently what is found most deadly on some streams 

 is totally ineffective in a neighbouring river. 



