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tippet feathers, upper wing, strips of bustard and gold 

 pheasant tail, over them sprigs of yellow-green swan, one 

 topping ; with Himalaya 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; redhead. 



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 ; but, black 

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

 olive-brown mohair; gold tinsel and silver twist ; hackle, 

 golden olive, medium blue at shoulders; wing, dark 

 turkey, or cock-pheasant tail, over that fibres of bustard, 

 and bright Florican, brown mallard and a plentiful admix- 

 ture of green swan sprigs ; head red. 



Switching Sandy. Tag, silver tinsel and light orange- 

 red floss ; tail, a topping and tippet sprigs ; but, black' 

 ostrich herl ; body, three turns of dark blue floss, two. of 

 yellow-green floss, the rest of rather a blue-green wool ; 

 gold tinsel ; light yellow-green hackle with a darker blue- 

 green on shoulder ; wing, gold pheasant tail, the same dyed 

 pinkish, shreds of brown mallard, wood-duck and Florican, 

 blue and yellow-green swan sprigs; black head. The 

 body and hackle of this fly are so like the Highlander, 

 that it will be found to kill on the Ness, the Carron, the 

 Blackwater, the Garry, and many other Boss and Suther- 

 landshire rivers: on many of these rivers, greens are in 

 favour ; other very favourite flies for Thurso are the Black 

 and Teal, the Britannia, the Childers, the Namsen, the 

 Butcher and Major. Sizes, from 4 to 9 or 10. 



