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for some purposes these are much too large ; 

 be provided with these of the following co- 

 lours, viz. red, dun ? yellowish, white, orange, 

 and perfect black ; and whenever you meet 

 with a live or a dead cock of the game breed, 

 whose hackle is of a strong brown red, never 

 fail to buy him; but observe, the feathers of 

 a cock chicken, be they ever so fine for 

 shape and colour, are good for little, as they 

 are too downy and weak to stand erect after 

 they are once wet. Feathers absolutely ne- 

 cessary for the wings and other parts of flies, 

 are got from the back and other parts of the 

 wild mallard, or drake ; the feathers of a 

 partridge, especially those red ones that are 

 in the tails ; feathers from a cock pheasant's 

 breast, tail and wings ; the wings of a black- 

 bird, a brown hen, starling, jay, land-rail or 

 throstle, fieldfare, and water-coot ; the fea- 

 thers from the crown of the pevvet, plover, 

 or lapwing, green and copper-coloured pea- 

 cock and black ostrich's harl ; feathers from 

 a heron's neck and wings ; and remember 

 that in most instances where the drake or 



