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hackle round the head; the wings are four 

 toppings with strips of summer duck, a sprig 

 or two of pheasant tail and neck, a strip of 

 dyed white tipped turkey tail, and a sprig of 

 guinea hen and glede or kite tail, the tail 

 feather of the hen hymalean pheasant is as 

 good as what is called in Scotland "salmon tail 

 glede," and the topping or crest of the cock 

 bird which is a transparent scarlet colour, 

 and like a topping of the golden pheasant 

 stands over all ; blue kingfisher each side, 

 and scarlet macaw feelers, black ostrich head, 

 hook No. 9 or 8 in high water. This is a 

 magnificent specimen of a salmon fly, and 

 cannot be made properly at a small expense, 

 either by the amateur himself who buys his 

 foreign feathers, or by the fly-maker who gets 

 his bread by it. The three flies in the plates 

 Nos. 1, 2, and 3, will be found to do the work 

 well. With this one, see the gaudy jointed fly 

 in the plate, with "picker" at top. 



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