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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 mottled red and black 

 turkey, feather off golden pheasant's back tinder 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 rib- 

 bed 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 pheasant tippet feath- 

 ers, two pairs of toppings, wood-duck and turkey on 

 either side. 



The Ranger. Tag, silver twist and gold-colored floss 

 silk ; tail, red breast-feather of golden pheasant, and a 

 topping footed with two turns of black ostrich ; body, 

 fiery brown pig's wool one-half, remainder pale blue ditto, 

 to be palmered with blue hackle ; legs, wood-duck hackle 



