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same plate, will be found a killer either for 

 sea-trout or grilse, in the rivers in Scotland, 

 and the South of Ireland. The wings are 

 made of a dark brown grouse hackle that grows 

 on the rump of the bird, just above the tail, 

 mixed with a small quantity of light brown 

 turkey tail, or kite tail, which is the salmon tail 

 glede of the north, and two feelers of blue and 

 yellow macaw ; a black head ; the body is made 

 with a tip of silver twist at the tail, and a tag 

 of black ostrich ; the tail is a mixture of golden 

 pheasant neck feather, and brown mallard, two 

 or three fibres of each ; the body is blue floss 

 silk, rather light, with an old black cock's hackle 

 rolled over it, ribbed with fine silver twist ; 

 round the shoulder roll a claret or scarlet 

 hackle. The hook No. 10, or C, double CC, 

 or B, for grilse. There may be three or four 

 varieties of this fly made thus : — body blue, 

 with blue jay, same wings, with a little neck 

 feather of the golden pheasant; orange body, 

 same coloured hackle, and same wings, blue 

 jay at head ; a dun body, with fiery brown 

 hackle at the head ; a claret body — a yellow 

 body, and small grouse ; blue body, and guinea 

 hen ; and a yellow body, with guinea hen ; a 



