THE DHOON PLY. 



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 also from 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. Mr. 

 Dunbar. the lessee of the river, to whom I wrote lately, 

 tells me that there is no change in the bill of fare ; the 

 same flies are used now as were used half-a-dozen years 

 igo. 



The Dhoon Fly. This was originally a Mahseer fly used 

 in the Himalayas. How it came to be adopted here I can- 

 not say, but it kills on one or two other rivers, particularly 

 in spring on the Welah Wye, where it is called the Canary. 

 Tag, gold tinsel and ruby floss ; tail, a topping; but, black 

 ostrich herl ; body, in four joints, of bright yellow floss ; 

 at every joint a large wad of yellow wool is tied in for a 

 hackle, and left very long and bushy ; in the two lower 

 joints it is plain yellow wool, the upper two bright orange- 

 yeilow 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 ; tail, one topping, some tippet sprigs with 

 green and red parrot ; but, black ostrich lierl ; body, 

 burnt sienna floss and bright medium green ' (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 



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

 blue-green, but strictly medium. 



