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CHAPTER XL 



OF SALMON FLIES. 



JL HESE, for the spring season, must be 

 made much larger, but not quite so gaudy 

 as those used in summer, viz. let the hook 

 be No. J, the shank three inches or more in 

 length, and small at the nd, in order that 

 the head of the fly may be made the neater : 

 the feather for the wings, the darkish brown 

 speckled, from the turkey's tail, and mixed 

 with about twelve harls from the peacock's 

 tail, dividing them that there may be six in 

 each wing; the next feathers for wings to 

 these large flies, are kite, buzzard, bittern, 

 and heron's wings. The body of the first 

 fly, called the tartan-fly, is of four, five or 

 more different colours, yellow, light blue, 

 green, dark red, orange, and purple, and as 



