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thread together ; wing, one longish bright yellow macaw 

 feather, with an orange red one on either side, six or 

 seven large toppings over, backed by sprigs of bu.-tanl. 

 gold pheasant tail, red and blue macaw; large yellow 1 

 crewel head. 



No. 7. The last was. a gay fellow, but this is, if pos- 

 sible, more brilliant still. Tag, silver tinsel and pea-green I 

 flo*s; tail, Himalayan pheasant hackle; body, medium 

 orange floss; (diver tinsel and gold thread together; hackle, J 

 powder blue macaw all up; win<;, as l><-t<>rc, and with two 

 large blue chatterer feathers at the cheek ; and big head 

 of the same blue. All the flies sent by Mr. Nicholay have, 

 he says, killed fish, and one or two of them show good 

 service. I also had some magnificent flies sent for my i 

 inspection lately by Messrs. Enright, of Castle Connell. j 

 The largest ones were gorgeous as they could be, after the I 

 same fashion as the last two or three flies; with large buts j 

 of scarlet mohair; black, blue, and purple silk bodies; I 

 with silver tinsel and gold thread; with claret and bin. 

 hackles all up ; and wings of the most gorgeous descrip- I 

 tion, after the fashion of the last two or three flies ; with j 

 large blue and yellow wool heads. Nearly all these flies 

 are dressed at once on trebble gut, not on loops. The 

 hooks are Nos. 1, 2, and 3. These are for the largest 

 spring sizes. Messrs. Enright also enclosed four flies for 

 the end of April and May, dressed upon precisely the same j 

 principle, only the sizes are Nos. 6 and 7. The tying of j 

 all these beauties is beyond praise. Messrs. Enrigbt also 

 favoured me with half-a-dozen June flies. The most airy, 1 

 blood-thirsty looking little fellow (No. 1), is a Dusty j 

 Miller dressed on a No. 10 hook, with a good deal of gal- j 

 Una in the wing, and an Indian crow at the cheek. 



No. 2 is much the same, only with darkish blue floss 

 body, instead of tinsel. 



No. 3 is a miniature Shannon salmon fly ; with mauve 



