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No. 3. Tag, silver tinsel; tail, a long Indian crow 

 feather, and a topping : but, red ostrich ; body, silver 

 tinsel, with gold thread spiral ; hackle, dark blue all up 

 with Indian yellow hackle at shoulder, and a paleish green 

 macaw hackled over it ; wings, sprigs of blue and red 

 macaw ; orange and yellow swan, gallina, and gold pheasant 

 tail, longish kingfisher at cheeks ; head, red ostrich. 



No. 4. Tag, silver tinsel, and darkish blue floss ; but, 

 black ostrich; tail (over the but) a medium sized Indian 

 crow, and a topping ; body, yellowish orange floss ; tinsel 

 gold moderate ; hackle, light pea green parrot clipped on 

 the breast side, and left long on the back to make wings ; 

 wing, two long Indian crow feathers, under one longest, 

 and a few sprigs of gold pheasant tail, gallina, blue macaw 

 and yellow swan, two pairs of smaller Indian crow at 

 cheeks standing up and out ; head black ; a most elegant 

 fly. Hook No. 7 in length, with the head of a No. 4 ; most 

 of these hooks are very large in the bend. 



No. 5. Tag, gold tinsel and golden floss; tail, an Indian 

 crow and a topping ; body, darkish blue floss ; gold tinsel 

 and twist with it ; hackle, dark blue all up with jay at 

 shoulder ; wing, two or three hackles of a deep orange al- 

 most crimson ; outside them a pale powder blue macaw 

 feather on one side, and an orange red one on the other. 

 Two or three biggish toppings over, backed up by sprigs 

 of gold pheasant tail, bustard, wood-duck, and red macaw, 

 Indian crow feathers at cheek ; head, a big lump of lemon 

 crewel. Hook No. 4, natural size. 



No. 6. This fly is dressed on a pair of No. 6 hooks. 

 Tag, gold thread and pea green floss ; tail, Indian crow 

 and Himalayan pheasant hackle. This feather is like a 

 red dyed topping. It is rather too wiry to my fancy. 

 Body, two turns of thick orange floss, the rest blue (same 

 colour as the last) ; darkish blue hackle ; Indian yellow 

 all up, with jay at shoulder ; broad gold tinsel and gold 



