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fly to tie. It is, however, an established favourite with some 

 anglers, and therefore I describe it. Tag, gold twist ; tail, a 

 topping, two turns of peacock herl over it. The body is in 

 three joints ; the lowest is yellow, the middle one blue, and the 

 upper one orange floss. At every joint there is a turn or two of 

 peacock herl, and tied in instead of a hackle, and pointing 

 downwards like a hackle are three or four of the small red 

 feathers in the breast of the Indian crow. Fine gold twist ; 

 blue jay, hackled at shoulder ; mixed wing, fibres of gold 

 pheasant tail and tippet, bustard, teal, blue, yellow, and 

 claret-dyed sawn, and a topping over all ; peacock herl head. 

 Size, from 7 to n. 



The Britannia. This is a very rich fly, but it is a tried 

 accepted favourite upon many rivers. It kills well on the 

 Thurso, to which river, by the way, I first introduced it 

 several years ago. I had very good sport with it there. The 

 tag, gold twist ; tail, a good-sized topping, a bit of scarlet ibis 

 and fibres of bright bastard bustard ; body, two or three turns 

 of bright golden floss, and then bright orange pig's wool, gold 

 tinsel, and silver twist ; bright red claret hackle ; bustard or 

 wood duck hackle over that, and dark blue or green hackle on 

 shoulder, or rather as a ruff over the wing ; under wing, a 

 couple of shovel duck feathers, with from three to five toppings 

 over it ; two short jungle cock on either shoulder, and two 

 shorter still kingfisher just below them at cheek ; head, gold 

 thread. A very warm gorgeous-looking fly. By using a dark 

 orange or a red-brown hackle, the warmth of the fly may be 

 toned down. The green shoulder-hackled fly is my favourite. 

 Size, 4, 5, or 6. 



The Goldfinch. This fly is the handsomest and neatest speci- 

 men of a showy salmon fly I know of. Tag, gold tinsel and black 

 floss ; tail, a topping ; body, gold coloured floss, hackle pale 

 yellow, blue jay at shoulder ; gold tinsel ; wing, composed 

 entirely of toppings ; red macaw ribs, and black head. Size 5 

 to 7. 



TWEED FLIES 



Few rivers are so varied in their character as the Tweed, 

 which comprises in its length every kind of water rapid, 

 dub, stream, fall, etc. The lower part of the salmon-fishing is 

 mostly boat-fishing ; higher up it can be fished a good deal 

 from the shore. The waters or holdings are not generally 



