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hackle all the way up, and reddish orange at shoulder with 

 gallina over it ; wing, two ruff feathers under with a good 

 deal of grey speckled peacock ; a little bustard, a few 

 claret, orange, yellow, and blue swan and some pintail over ; 

 black head. 



Then come two new flies, viz. 



The Royal. Tag, silver tinsel, and ruby silk ; tail, a 

 topping, and a bit of ibis ; but, black ostrich ; body, 

 one-third flattened gold twist (I do not know what the 

 trade name is), at the joint an orange-yellow hackle with 

 claret ostrich herl over ; then two-thirds of a medium 

 light blue silk with silver tinsel and silver twist ; jay 

 hackle at shoulder with long fibred blue over, same colour 

 as body ; wing, gold pheasant tail, bustard, pintail, 

 claret, yellow and orange swan, a bit of wood-duck in the 

 middle, and two short jungles at the side, topping over; 

 head, claret ostrich. 



The Shannon. I am afraid, as we have a Shannon 

 already, and even engraved for this work, we must make a 

 sort of bull, and call this the Scotch Shannon. It is 

 rather a whim : tag, silver tinsel ; tail, a topping ; but, 

 Muck ostrich ; body, floss silk in joints, yellow-orange, 

 pink, claret and blue a double length of the latter shade 

 medium broadish silver tinsel spiraled over all ; a dark 

 red coch-y-bondu hackle all the way up, medium blue at 

 shoulder, with black over it ; wing, short gold pheasant 

 ruff; over it gold pheasant tail, grey speckled peacock, 

 claret-orange and yellow swan ; wood-duck, over that 

 (the part without the black bars) short jungle-cock, over 

 that, one topping; black head. 



With these Mr. Paton says that the Blue Doctor, 

 the Dusty Miller and Jock Scott, are general favourites. 

 The size, of course, must be suited to the water. In 

 heavy water the longest sizes are used, but a good mode- 



