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No. 6. The Parson. This is a beautiful and efficient 

 fly. The wings are mixed, and very similar to those in 

 No. 1, but have a slight mixture of wood duck in them ; 

 the body is of very dark claret silk with gold twist; head 

 black ostrich ; tail golden pheasant topknot, hackle dark 

 claret ; legs blue, with a tip of yellow and gold. 



No. 7. Strachan. Mixed wing chiefly of golden pheasant 

 tail, yellow macaw, and jay's wing ; body of crimson silk 

 with gold twist ; head black ostrich ; tail golden pheasant ; 

 black hackle with jay's wing / legs ^tip yellow and gold. 



No. 8. Langevin. Wings, body, tail, hackle, legs, tip 

 all yellow ; made of the dyed feathers of the white goose ; 

 the head of black ostrich and the twist of black silk. 



This latter is indigenous, I believe, to Quebec, I at least 

 have never seen it any where else, though on the Shannon 

 I have used a somewhat similar fly composed altogether of 

 the bright feathers of the golden pheasant's topknot ; but 

 peculiar though it be, the gentleman whose name it bears 

 seldom fishes with any other, and he manages to hook as 

 many fish in the Jacques Cartier as most other people. I 

 have seen him fish with one of these flies until almost all 

 the dye was washed out of it, in fact until it was nearly 

 white, and do good work with it in that state. It is 

 however so similar to No. 3, the colours of which are 

 permanent, composed as it is of real feathers, that I greatly 

 prefer the latter. 



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