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give you an idea how it is done. Wlien the 

 wings are turned up last, and a head formed of 

 the root of them with the tying silk, you next 

 roll on a piece of brown peacock harl at the 

 root of the wings, a harl with long pile or 

 fibres is best, as you can press it up with 

 your fingers to hang over the root of the 

 wings. 



The great nicety in making this fly to look 

 well is, in tying on the two fibres of the golden 

 pheasant feathers at the tail with fine silk, and 

 the tying on of the larva itself at the shoulder 

 of the fly, and then covering the silk that ap- 

 peared bare with a little mohair twisted round 

 the tying silk, and then rolled over it ; it is over 

 this bit of mohair the hackle should be rolled, 

 and secured with two knots. 



The wing of the small larva in the plate is 

 tied on last, and a most curious and killing 

 looking fly it is; the other one does best in 

 deep water, or for grilse or sea-trout in July 

 and August, particularly in the latter month. 



The Salmon Fly, No. 11, in the centre of 

 the plate, with the larvas, is a capital specimen 

 for the light streams north of the Tweed, and 

 would kill well in tliat splendid river at low water 



