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rot, green and blue, cock pheasant's tail, bustard, wood-drake ; separate 

 the fibres of one lot, laying them on your table, with a space be- 

 tween each ; then take up another lot, and lay a fibre down on each 

 of the others; and so on with each bundle, except golden pheasant, of 

 which you use about one-half as much as the others ; and parrot, one- 

 quarter, guinea-fowl three-quarters, English pheasant one-quarter. When 

 all are sorted out, roll them into a bundle, and draw them out several 

 times between your fingers, to more perfectly blend them. This is 

 your ordinary rich wing; nothing can be more beautiful or better. 

 Your fly always wears an even appearance and not blotchy. When you 

 require an extra colored tint to your wing, add more of the color, but 

 take care to blend the fibres you add well with the stock color. A 

 tag is whatever you wrap on the bare hook outside of the tail. And 

 now we come to salmon-flies, of which we can only enumerate a few 

 standard and well-known killers in the old country, and a few of this 

 continent. We regret to say, for more reasons than one, that we have 

 had no experience in salmon-fishing in America; it is for this reason 

 we crave the indulgence of our readers for the meagre lot of American 

 standard flies; what we have given are well-known killers in many 

 waters of the old country, and are the standard flies of many and 

 various rivers. I have little doubt but that they will be found as 

 effective in the new as they are in the old world. The first lot are all 

 small flies, used in Ireland chiefly for salmon. They will, I doubt not, 

 be effective here for sea-trout or river-trout. The size of hooks from 

 which the patterns are taken vary from Nos. 2 to 6 ; on the smallest 

 of them I have killed salmon ; they may, however, be made a couple 

 of sizes larger. 



No. 1. Gold tag. Tail Two fibres of hen pheasant's tail. Body 

 composed of fine red chenille, one-third; light bluish-green chenille, 

 one-third ; pale-yellow straw chenille, one-third ; claret-colored cock's 

 hackle for legs only, body being bare. Wings Great African bustard, 

 with four strands of green-blue peacock harl. Head very long, of com- 

 mon brown peacock's harl. (I state here, once for all, that I describe 

 flies in succession from the tail end, whence they are commenced in 

 the making.) 



An extraordinary killer, tricolored chenille body, claret hackle, 

 bustard wings. 



