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wool, and the remainder of the body of black ; silver tinsel 

 and twist ; very dark blue hackle, extending from the red 

 mohair, black hackle at shoulder ; wing, a pair of long 

 jungle cock feathers, a trifle longer than the hook ; doubled l 

 tippet feathers over them, topping over all ; blue macaw 

 ribs ; and kingfisher at the cheeks. 



The Blue Ranger. Tag, silver twist and gold-coloured 

 floss ; tail as before ; but, black ostrich ; body, gold-coloured 

 floss and fiery-red wool as before ; light blue pig's wool for 

 the rest of the body ; blue hackle, a shade darker from 

 almost the middle of the wool to the shoulder, gallina 

 hackle over ; silver tinsel and twist ; wing, a pair of tip- 

 pets; double jungle-cock over them; topping 1 over all; 

 black head. Both these flies, as regards size, to follow the 

 colonel's lead. We will now leave the military and go 

 into the church. 



The Parson (Plate XI. p. 369). This is a very showy 

 fly, and is used chiefly on the Erne, but it is a capital fly 

 anywhere where a showy fly is required. It is on the Erne 

 rather a generic name for a series of flies than for any 

 special one, as we have there green parsons, and blue 

 parsons, and golden parsons, and so on ; the parson being 

 merely significant of plenty of toppings in the wing. The 

 golden parson, however, is my idea of the fly, and this I 

 will describe. 



Tag, silver tinsel and mauve floss ; tail, two toppings, 

 a few sprigs of tippet and a kingfisher ; body, two turns of 

 golden floss silk, then golden pig's wool, merging into 

 orange ; silver twist ; golden orange hackle over the wool, 

 red orange hackle over that, and two or three or more 

 short toppings tied in at the breast, instead of shoulder 

 hackle ; wing, a tippet feather with a cock of the rock (not 

 the squared feather) on either side, and one above, strips 



1 Double feathers mean where a short feather is laid on over and beside 

 a long one of the same kind. 



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