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vantage be trimmed a little closer on the breast. Tag, 

 orange floss ; tail, a topping ; body, medium blue floss ; 

 hackle, guinea hen (small speckled), laid on pretty thick and 

 trimmed off on the breast : silver twist ; wings, gold pheasant 

 tail, and tippet, mixed fibres with guinea hen and teal and 

 yellow fibres ; blue macaw ribs ; head, peacock herl. Size, 

 6, 7, and 8. A useful fly ; varies nicely by dyeing the hackle 

 yellow. 



Black and Teal. Tag, silver twist and golden floss ; tail, 

 one topping ; butt, black herl ; body, two turns of orange floss, 

 the rest black (either floss, horsehair, mohair, or unlaid sewing 

 silk), in large flies fur is often used ; broadish silver tinsel ; 

 black hackle over three parts of the body ; gallina (the dark 

 feather with the large round spots, not the small speckled grey) 

 on the shoulder ; wing, double jungle cock with topping over 

 them, and two good-sized teal, or the small feather of the black 

 partridge, one on either shoulder to form a body to the wing ; 

 head, gold thread. This is my own pattern of dressing this fly, 

 and a very good one I consider it to be. The fly is a first- 

 rate general fly, and should be kept of all sizes, as it will kill 

 large lake and river trout or sea trout, as well as salmon, if 

 regulated in size. The smaller patterns may be made with 

 single jungle cock feathers, a trifle more teal being added. It 

 is one of the best flies that can be used on the Spey. Some 

 persons, however, dress it purely with a teal wing ; it is good 

 anyhow. (Plate XVIII, Fig. 4.) 



The Namsen. There is not a prettier body made than^the 

 Namsen boasts of. It is a great favourite of mine. Tag, silver 

 twist*; tail, one topping, some red parrot, and pintail sprigs ; 

 body roughish, two turns of bright yellow pig's wool merged 

 into deep orange, and that into medium red claret, and that 

 again into bright medium (or inclining to darkish) blue ; the 

 upper part of the claret and the blue tied in roughly for picking 

 out, the blue the longest, of course ; silver tinsel with gold 

 thread beside it ; longish black hackle on shoulder ; wing, slips 

 of dark turkey, bright bustard, English bustard, red, blue, and 

 greenish-yellow dyed swan ; head black. Size from 4 or 5 to 9 

 or 10. 



The Popham. This is a peculiar species of fly, and in the 

 interest of the fly tyer, I have given a cut of it (Frontispiece, 

 Fig. i). It kills upon two or three rivers in the North, I 

 believe, on the Ness and the Brora, and occasionally elsewhere. 

 It never was a great favourite of mine, being a very troublesome 



