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fibres of dark mallard for tail, ribbed with 

 brown silk, a grizzled dun-cock's hackle for 

 legs, or silver grey ; grey mallard for wings, 

 and a peacock harl head. 



The body should be made taper, and full at 

 the head, it is a capital fly on rough days in 

 May and June, and used to advantage on warm 

 evenings. The body may be also made of dun 

 fox fur, grey at the ends, a silver grey hackle 

 for legs, and forked with three hairs from a 

 fitch's tail; the wings grey mallard and 

 widgeon mixed. It is also made of straw body, 

 grey cock's hackle, and mallard wings — these 

 two methods are very good. They kill well in 

 Scotland, and in Ireland are called the "Grey 

 Cochlan." These flies may be seen in "Taylor's 

 Angler." 



Mr. Taylor was an angler of no small pre- 

 tensions, he was very fond of the Irish coloured 

 flies> and has adopted many of them as stand- 

 ards for Scotland, England, and many rivers 

 in Wales. 



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