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lately for patterns, he sent me all the old patterns above, and 

 with this addition ; it is a beautiful fly to the eye, so I give it. 

 No. 7. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, two toppings ; butt, white 

 ostrich ; body, three turns of orange floss, the rest of violet 

 floss ; gold tinsel ; dark purple hackle (rather of a lavender 

 tint when held up to the light), some tippet tied as a hackle at 

 the shoulders, blue jay over ; wing, six or seven toppings, with 

 a blue chatterer on en croupe ; blue macaw ribs ; black head ; 

 hooks 7 and 8. 



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Patterns also from Hearns. The Erris flies are curious 

 specimens of art, and by no means easy to tie. They are 

 mostly jointed flies, many of them having also manes from 

 the back of each joint, and some with a turn or two of hackle, 

 also at the joint. 



No. i. Tag, gold thread; tail, a topping; butt, black 

 ostrich, five joints, four of them being composed of black 

 floss, each divided by three turns of gold thread, the top or 

 shoulder joint being of yellow floss ; at the third joint from 

 the tail three turns of an olive hackle are laid on ; from each 

 joint springs a mane or tuft of mohair ; the lowest one is dirty 

 red, the next light claret, the next dirty red again, the next 

 darkish purple-claret, and the top one just under the wing 

 orange ; the hackle at the shoulder is a dark red stained brown, 

 with blue jay over it ; the wing, mallard and gold pheasant 

 tail, blue macaw ribs, kingfisher at cheeks ; black head. 



No. 2. Tag, silver tinsel ; tail, a topping and a small jungle 

 cock ; butt, black ostrich ; body, five joints, yellow and black 

 floss alternately, divided by silver thread, and above this one 

 turn of a red hackle, stained light olive ; manes of mohair, 

 from the back of each joint, the first darkish claret, second 

 dark red, third darker claret, fourth darker red, fifth a mixture 

 of yellow, brown and red ; just under, as a support to each 

 mane, is tied in a feather from the breast of the Indian crow, 

 increasing in length (as do the manes) as they progress up 

 towards the wing ; hackle, on shoulder, olive ; red rump 

 feather of gold pheasant, tied in on the shoulder as a hackle, 

 over that again a turn or two of blue jay ; wing, tippet fibres 

 gold pheasant tail, and brown mallard, one topping, and blue 

 macaw ribs ; black head. 



No. 3. This is No. 6 of the Moy flies. 



These flies do equally well for the Owenmore and Ballycroy, 

 Hooks from 5 to 9. 



