PIXDHORX FLIES. 377 



mohair ; tail, topping and tippet, sprigs of gold pheasant 

 sword feather, blue macaw and pale yellow green parrot ; 

 but, black ostrich ; body, same as before, only a shade or 

 so lighter ; gold and silver tinsel side by side ; hackle, 

 coch-y-bondu, stained brown, black heron at shoulder, 

 reaching to point of hook ; wing, strips of bustard and 

 bright peacock, sprigs of blue and red macaw and yellow- 

 green swan ; collar, bright orange mohair. Hook, same as 

 last. 



No. 6. Tag, silver thread and yellow floss; tail,along- 

 ish topping, tippet, and a red toucan feather; but. Mack 

 ostrich ; body, black floss ; broad silver tinsel and gold 

 thread side by side ; hackle, the dark chocolate brown 

 cock's feather used in the Spey flies, black hrnm ;it 

 shoulder, and gallina over it ; wing, two tippet feathers 

 (two-thirds the length of wing), mixed peacock and gold 

 pheasant tail, with h'bres of red and blue macaw ; olive- 

 yellow mohair collar. Hook, No. 4. 



No, 7. Tag, gold thread ; tail, a topping, and some gal- 

 lina ; body, one turn of orange yellow pig's wool, then two 

 light claret red, two of medium blue, three of clarety 

 red, and the same of orange-yellow ; broad ish gold tinsel ; 

 dark purple hackle, black hackle at shoulder, blue jay 

 over it ; wing, one tippet (half the length of wing), 

 mixed gold pheasant tail, mallard, a little gallina, a little 

 bright bustard, a few sprigs of long tippet, and of yellow 

 and claret swan, and several blue macaw sprigs ; black 

 head ; no eollar. Hook, No. 5. 



No. 8. Tag, silver thread and darkish blue floss ; tail, a 

 good topping ; but, black ostrich ; body, one-third orange- 

 yellow floss, the rest dark chocolate floss ; hackle, a brown 

 claret, black heron on shoulder (shortish) : wing, a tippet 

 (long), the tip of a black partridge feather, a bit of dark 

 brown mallard, and the tip of a green parrot feather, 

 over this sprigs of brown turkey gold pheasant tail, two 



