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HACKLE. Green from yellow silk. 



THROAT. A yellow hackle. 



WINGS. Two tippets (back to back) veiled with light and dark Bustard, 



Golden Pheasant tail, dark mottled Turkey, Swan dyed green, 



Mallard and a topping. 

 HORNS. Blue Macaw. 



THE GREEN KING. S.S. 



BODY. A dull shade of green, composed of a mixture of light and dark 

 green, brown, and a little yellow Berlin wools. 



KIBS. From separate starting points of gold tinsel (narrow), silver tinsel 

 (narrow) and light olive-green sewing thread. These are all 

 wound the reverse way an equal distance apart, but the sewing 

 thread is left until the hackle is put on. The two metal ribs run 

 under the hackle, the sewing thread is put over it, between the 

 fibres. 



HACKLE. From end of body, a red Spey-Cock hackle, but wound from 

 the root instead of from the point, in the usual direction, thus 

 crossing over the metal ribs. 



THROAT. Teal, two turns only. 



WINGS. Two strips of Mallard, having brown mottled points and grey 

 mottled roots. 



The old standard Spey flies, like this one, are dressed upon long 

 shanked hooks. The bodies start from a point as much before the direct 

 line of the point of the hook as the work in ordinary standard flies starts 

 behind it ; that is equal to saying the bodies are comparatively very 

 short. The wings are also very short, in fact, no longer than the 

 bodies, if so long. 



In preparing a Spey-Cock's hackle, do not remove all the fluffy fibres 

 at the root, but leave about three on each side of the quill. " The Green 

 King " is dressed after the local fly of that name. It appears in enormous 

 numbers about the end of April, and is an exceedingly large insect, twice 



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