4ir, THE BANDON 



fur, with blue claret and grey hackles to match, the lower 

 (or blue one) clipped, yellow hackle at shoulder, with a 

 turn or so of black hackle over it ; wing, sprigs of bustard, 

 brown turkey, tippet, green parrot, and brown mallard 

 over; black head. 



No. 3. Tag, silver tinsel and orange floss ; tail, sprigs 

 of tippet, mallard, green mohair, and gallina stained 

 pale blue ; body, apple-green floss ; fine gold twist ; blue 

 jay hackle all up, orange hackle on shoulder ; wing, gold 

 pheasant tail (streaked), bustard, green parrot, mallard 

 over ; black head. 



The orange and grouse and apple-green may be dressed 

 smaller for summer wear. Hooks, No*. 6, 7, and 8 ; 

 add to these the new patterns on the Lee list. 



THE BANDON 



is a pretty river, and produces a good many salmon and 

 gome good sport in the season. Mr. Haynes sends me 

 half-a-dozen patterns for it, as it was not formerly included 

 in my list. 



No. 1. Tag, silver tinsel, orange floss ; tail, a topping ; 

 body, black chenille ; silver tinsel ; hackle claret all up, jay 

 at shoulder; wing tippet sprigs (a bunch) brown mallard, 

 blue macaw ribs ; black head. 



No. 2. Tag and tail as before ; body, lower half dirty 

 orange wool rough, upper dark silver grey ; silver tinsel ; 

 cuckoo dun hackle over the grey, darkish blue at shoulder ; 

 wing a bit of ibis, or red parrot rather, tippet sprigs, 

 florican, gold pheasant tail, brown mallard ; blue macaw 

 ribs ; and black head. 



No. 3. Tag, silver tinsel and a wad of bright yellow 

 wool ; tail, a topping ; body, medium blue wool ; hackle of 

 the same shade and bright yellow at shoulder; silver 

 tinsel ; wing and head as before. 



