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light blue (Blue Doctor shade) wool ; hackle of the same 

 colour ; silver thread and brown mallard wing. 



An amber body, with a' mixed wing on which the 

 light brown feather of the bittern predominates, is also 

 good in May and June. 



The Butcher (No. 2 dressing, p. 338) kills well also in 

 the Tivey ; indeed it is one of the best flies used in it. 



THE DEE. 



The accompanying flies were sent to me by Mr. Towns- 

 hend, of Wrexham, who obtained them for me from 

 Colonel T., a noted angler on the Dee. The Dee flies are 

 very sober and plain. 



No. 1. Tag, gold tinsel; tail, a small tippet feather ; 

 body, bronze peacock herl, gold tinsel ; brown-red hackle 

 at shoulder ; wing, a mixture of brown turkey and thin 

 peacock herl fibres from near the eye of the feather ; head, 

 peacock herl. 



No. 2. No tail; same body; coch-y-bondu hackie; 

 wing, two short hackles, crimson-red with a lake tinge, 

 set on either side, with a bunch of long fibres from a cock 

 pheasant's tail between them ; peacock herl head. 



No. 3. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, sprigs of tippet ; body, 

 as before ; dark olive-brown hackle at shoulder ; wing, 

 bunch of fibres from rump of speckled brown hen with 

 fibres of tippet on either side ; head, as before. 



No. 4. Tail, a scrap of teal slightly stained olive ; 

 body, medium brown mohair ; silver thread ; coch-y-bondu 

 hackle at shoulder; wing, mottled peacock, with a few 

 fibres of the same stained yellow for ribs ; head, peacock's 

 herl. Hooks from Nos. 5 to 8. 



