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introduced. The head is of scarlet crewel. This fly is dressed 

 upon any sized hook, from about No. 6 to No. 10, to suit the 

 water. (Plate XIX, Fig. i.) 



The Silver Doctor is also a good standard*. fly. Tag, silver 

 tinsel ; tail, gold pheasant topping, a turn of red crewel over 

 the stump of it for the butt ; body, silver tinsel ; hackle blue, 

 as before, with a brown hackle at the shoulder, and a small 

 speckled gallina over it ; wing, chiefly of pintail, with a few 

 red and blue fibres, and two toppings over it ; red crewel head. 

 And a very pretty showy fly it makes. Size as before, 

 ff Having finished with the medical profession, we now turn 

 to the army, and produce 



The Colonel. There are two uniforms which the, Colonel 

 rejoices in ; the one a bright gold or yellow, and the other 

 a red gold, or orange. Tag, gold twist and two turns of bright 

 yellow floss ; tail, red and yellow sprigs mixed with gallina, 

 and a topping ; no butt ; body, yellow floss half-way up, and 

 then orange pig's wool ; over this is ribbed side by side, gold 

 twist and tinsel and black floss (a bit of unravelled coarse sew- 

 ing silk does better) first the twist, then the tinsel, then the 

 black silk ; yellow hackle from tail to head, bustard hackle at 

 shoulder; under wing gold pheasant tippet, two feathers 

 shortish ; on either side of these strips of bustard and argus 

 pheasant (the dark small speckled feather) ; fibres of yellow 

 thrown in here and there, and over all a topping with blue 

 macaw ribs ; black head. For the orange variety read orange 

 for yellow. Size various, from about No. 4 to 8. 



The Major. Tag, silver twist and ruby floss ; tail, fiores of 

 bustard hackle, tippet and a topping ; body composite, viz. 

 two turns of medium blue, ditto of dark orange, about four or 

 five of bright claret, and two more of blue pig's wool, over this 

 silver tinsel and gold twist side by side ; a red claret hackle, 

 commencing from the orange wool ; the blue wool picked out in 

 longish fibres at the shoulder, over this a bustard hackle, then 

 the wing, and over that a yellow hackle. The wing is com- 

 posed of a white ribbed snipe's feather, with longish tippet on 

 either side, over this bustard and gold pheasant tail in strips, 

 with red, blue, and greenish yellow fibres, and over all topping ; 

 black head. It is a capital fly, but I think some of the dressing 

 is rather overdone and might be dispensed with. Size same as 

 the last. 



Following up the military lead, we come to the Rangers. 



The Black Ranger. Tag, silver twist and golden floss ; tail, 



