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river to enter a green hand on, or for those who are not equal 

 to much fatigue, or to whom wading is tabooed. The flies for 

 it should be dressed on good-sized hooks ; the middle sizes, 

 not so large as Dee and Tay hooks, nor so small as Ness' flies, 

 being preferable. These patterns are alsojrom Farlow's ; the 

 fish having undergone a complete change^in their tastes since 

 I was there ; for when I was there they preferred a sober 

 coloured fly, but of late years they prefer more showy ones.* 



The Dhoon Fly. This was originally a Mahseer fly used 

 in the Himalayas. How it came to be adopted here I cannot 

 say, but it kills on one or two other rivers, particularly in spring 

 on the Welsh Wye, where it is called the Canary. Tag, gold 

 tinsel and ruby floss ; tail, a topping ; butt, black ostrich herl ; 

 body, in four joints, of bright yellow floss ; at every joint a 

 large wad of bright yellow wool is tied in for a hackle, and 

 left very long and bushy ;i in the two lower joints it is yellow 

 wool, the upper two bright orange-yellow pig's wool, very long 

 and bushy ; gold twist ;] hackle at shoulder yellow, and over 

 it an orange hackle ; wings, two big strips of bright orange 

 (dyed swan) feather, two good long^kingfisher or chatterer 

 feathers at the cheeks ; head black. 



The Duke of Sutherland. Tag, silver twist and gold- 

 coloured floss jj tail, one topping, some tippet sprigs with 

 green and red parrot ; butt, black ostrich herl ; body, burnt 

 sienna floss and bright medium green f (two turns of each), 

 the rest of pig's wool of the same colour ; hackle, ditto, ditto, 

 with orange-yellow hackle on the shoulder ; gold twist and 

 silver tinsel ; under wing, two tippet feathers, upper wing, 

 strips of bustard and gold pheasant tail, over them sprigs of 

 yellow-green swan, one topping, with Himalayan pheasant 

 back feather (that with the white spot on it) on either cheek ; 

 blue macaw ribs ; and black head. 



Sir Francis Sykes. Tag, silver twist and blue floss ; tail, 

 one topping and sprigs of teal and blue macaw ; body, dark 

 cinnamon-brown ; hackle of the same colour ; silver twist 

 doubled ; wing, mixed of gold pheasant tail, bustard, tippet, 

 wood-duck, blue, red, yellow, and green swan sprigs ; red head. 



The Priest. This is a good general fly, killing well in many 

 parts of Ireland. Tag, gold twist and dark blue floss ; tail, 

 a topping and pale red ibis or flamingo ; butt, black ostrich ; 



* At least the fishers do 1 ED. 



t By medium I mean that it is neither a decidedly yellow nor a decidedly 

 blue-green, but strictly medium. F. F. 



