174 THE ENTOMQLOGY OF THE ERNE. 



is dark orange, which is produced by a 

 liberal mixture of cock-of-the-rock ; or else 

 greenish grey. Before tying the wings, a 

 good shoulder must be prepared by taking 

 half-a-dozen turns of silk, and the fibres are 

 made to separate and stand on end by press- 

 ing down their stalks with the thumb-nail, 

 while the tying silk is lapped over them. 

 The tails are also of mixed feathers, and the 

 bodies generally of pigs' down pulled out 

 with the needle, though, in small flies, these 

 are often made of silk, and hackled and tin- 

 selled, as in the other genus. 



They bear something of the same relation 

 to the butterflies that in trout fishing the 

 buzz does to the winged fly. 



The Parson genus is much longer, slimmer, 

 and more elegant. This class is known by their 

 bright yellow wings, which are formed from 

 six or eight toppings of the golden pheasant. 

 In the original fly, which still bears the 

 name of " the Parson," tail, tip, body, and 

 hackle, are all yellow, as well as the wings, 

 and the tinsel is gold ; it is hackled over the 

 wings with blue jay, or else fitted with wing- 

 coverts from the kingfisher, with a black 

 ostrich head. 



