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black body, black hackle, and the same wings 

 and tail ; a black flj, with teal wings ; a brown 

 body, brown hackle, and " glede " wings, two 

 fibres of the same for tail. All these are the 

 choicest colours for sea-trout and grilse flies in 

 every salmon river in the kingdom. 



No. 12. Is a large Spki^g Fly used gene- 

 rally in the Shannon, and the Tweed, when 

 the rivers are very high and rapid. It will be 

 found a magnificent specimen of a gaudy salmon 

 fly, and is the proper size for March and April, 

 when the fulness of the stream prevents the 

 fish from seeing smaller ones. This fly will 

 be seen to perfection in the Plate. With this, 

 I will describe three or four others of the same 

 size, of difl*erent colours, which came into my 

 possession from Castle Connell, on the Banks 

 of the Shannon. 



The wings of No. 12 are made of the small 

 spotted brown Argus tail feather, golden phea- 

 sant tail, and the black and white peacock wing 

 feather; scarlet and blue macaw, and in the 

 centre an orange macaw feather whole, those 

 that are tipped with blue and green — they are 

 found on the shoulders of the red macaw and 

 down the back ; a tuft of broken neck feather 



