The angler who dresses, dubs, "busses, or ties 

 his own flies for these are all synonymes of the 

 same process has an additional source of pleasure 

 opened to him in the collection of materials; and 

 while gathering fur and feathers from quadruped 

 and fowl, he is at once adding to the store of his dub- 

 bing-bag and to his stock of information in Natural 

 History. He learns to distinguish the nice shades 

 of difference in the feathers of the starling and the 

 grouse, of the dotterel and the wren, the pheasant 

 and the partridge, the mallard and the pintado, the 

 bald coot and the black hen ; and so acute is the 

 discriminating faculty of the practised collector that 

 no keeper of wild beasts "can cheat him with the 

 fur of aBarbary Ape for that of the Green Monkey of 

 Demerara; the soft fur of whose thorax and abdomen, 

 of gosling-green slightly tinged with mouse-colour, 

 is so great a desideratum with every amateur and 

 professional fly-dresser. To an angler of this class 

 the Zoological Gardens afford a treat far beyond that 

 which is enjoyed by the mere lover of natural his- 

 tory; for, in addition to the pleasure of seeing the 

 animals, he has the gratification of collecting mate- 

 rials for his dubbing-bag, and receives his shilling's 

 worth twice over. A friend of ours visited this col- 

 lection about two years since, and during his three 

 hours' perambulation, contrived to amass such a 



