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is to be used with effect all the year, particu- 

 larly when the water is clearing after a flood, 

 and is of a dark brown or red colour. It has 

 four wings ; the two uppermost are of a red 

 colour, those under are transparent and of a 

 bine shade. It may be made with a starling's 

 feather, and red hackle for the wino-s ; and 

 seal's fur or hog's down dyed red, and mixed 

 with brown mohair, for the body. Or it may 

 be dressed in the same manner as the mar- 

 low buzz, which is a fly of a similar des- 

 cription, but rounder in form and thicker in 

 the body, somewhat resembling No. 4, in 

 plate 4. For this fly the copper coloured fea- 

 ther of the peacock's tail is used for the body ; 

 and the inestimable cock's hackle, which is 

 of perfect red, having a black stripe down 

 the middle, wound pretty full over the body. 

 This, and the sand fly before describ- 

 ed, may be considered standard flies. 



