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(Blacker's Gaudy Fly.) Tail, two slips of brown 

 mallard, and one topping or crest feather (golden phea- 

 sant) ; tag, gold orange floss and ostrich herl ; body, 

 one third crimson, palmered with black hackle, one 

 third scarlet, with scarlet hackle, finish the body with 

 crimson and scarlet hackle over it ; wings, well mot- 

 tled red and black turkey, feather off golden pheasant 

 back under it ; streamers, red and blue ; legs, Guinea- 

 fowl feather ; head, ostrich herl. 



(The Rainbow.) Tail, light greenfeather, pheasant's 

 topping, few fibres of bright green feathers ; tag, flat, 

 gold ; body, pig's wool, graduating from bright yellow 

 through orange, scarlet, to purple, and broad gold 

 tinsel; wings, two toppings and two jungle cock's 

 hackles, and two mottled feathers from under snipe's 

 wing ; streamers, crimson ; legs, blue and brown 

 hackles. 



(The Spey Dog.) Black pig's wool body, sparingly 

 ribbed with broad silver tinsel, to be palmered with 

 black-cock saddle or side-tail feather, the thick end of 

 hackle terminating at tail end of fly ; in addition to 

 the flat silver tinsel, gold of half the width is also run 

 from head to tail ; wings, golden pheasant tail ; left 

 bushy, and a few fibres of brown mallard, to be 

 shouldered with a teal hackle. 



(The Parson.) Tail, two toppings, and a few fibres 

 of peacock's blue neck feathers ; tag, silver tinsel and 

 full red floss ; body, a turn or two of golden floss, 

 then orange pig's wool shading gradually darker up 

 body, ribbed with silver twist, palmered with orange 

 hackle ; legs, hackle of dark shade ; wings, two golden 



