stock of hair and feathers as renders his dubbing- 

 bag unique. The wings of one of his salmon-flies are 

 formed of the feathers of a condor, variegated with 

 the plumage of a macaw; the body is formed of the 

 undergrowth of a lion's mane, and the whisks are 

 from the beard of a leopard. A feather from the wing 

 which may have soared above the top of Chimborago 

 has often floated on "Tweed's fair river," between 

 Coldstream and Norham, and the hair from a 

 mane which may have been dabbled in the blood 

 of the antelope in the desarts of Africa has more 

 than once been red with the blood of a Tweed 

 salmon. From a Hudson's Bay owl, which he caught 

 nappingi he obtained some fine brown-brindled fea- 

 thers ; and he would have "feathered his nest" well 

 with the emerald plumes of a parrot had not Poll 

 screamed out "murder!" and compelled him to 

 desist. 



The angler's dubbing-bag ought to contain fine 

 wool, floss, silk, and mohair, of various colours, 

 brown, red, orange, lemon, and straw-colour, olive, 

 willow-green, and drab. Fur of various shades, gos- 

 ling-green, cinnamon, dun, brown, brownish-yellow, 

 and mouse-colour. Feathers, for wings, of different 

 shades, from a dark brown to a bluish-grey. The 

 under-mentioned birds will afford an ample assort- 

 ment for the use of the fly-fisherman : the cormorant, 

 heron, bald-coot, starling, dotterel, field-fare, grouse, 

 partridge, glead or kite, pheasant, owl, mallard, teal, 

 pintado, turkey, jay (for salmon-flies), tern, and mar- 



