438 THE TOWEY. 



No. 6. Golden River Fly (North America). Tag, gold 

 twist and gold floss ; tail, a topping ; body, dark blue and 

 claret wool ; gold tinsel ; claret hackle all up, jay at 

 shoulder; wing, two tippets of gold pheasant tail, and 

 brown speckled turkey over, one topping ; black head. A 

 very good fly on Tivey. It is dressed on a No. 8 hook ; 

 most of the others are 6 and 7. 



I also had some patterns from Mr. J. D. Pryse of 

 Bwlchlycban ; and I am rather glad that none of the flies 

 are thus named. 



No. 1 is neither more nor less than the good old 

 claret mentioned so often, with a jay instead of a black 

 hackle. 



No. 2, called The Prince of Wales, is a ditto, only the 

 claret is browner, yellow instead of orange floss comes in 

 at the tail, and the wing is lightened with some wood -duck 

 and gallina. 



No. 3 is just a Blue Tay-wasp, with a gallina at the 

 shoulder. 



No. 4 is the old Tweed Toppy figured on Plate X. 



No. 5. Tag, gold tinsel, and puce floss ; tail, a topping ; 

 but, black ostrich ; body, bright orange pig's wool ; hackle, 

 same colour, jay at shoulder ; broad gold tinsel ; wing, 

 strips of orange swan, with gold pheasant tail over ; black 

 head. 



Of the Towey Mr. C. Morgan of Nant-caredig says there 

 are few regular standard patterns, but that the Butcher, the 

 Blue, the Silver and the Black Doctors, with Jock Scot, are 

 the best flies that can be used. The Black Doctor, I con- 

 clude, is like to tne others as to wing and hackle, but with 

 a black floss body. Mr. Morgan encloses one fly which he 

 states to be first-rate. 



The tag is of dark claret wool ; the tail red ibis ; the 

 body another turn of the claret wool, then the rest of a 



