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silk they are now frequently made of strips of wheat 

 straw. 



12. Grey Drake. This is said to be a metamorphosis 

 of the green drake, or female changing to a male. 

 Dress it thus : Body, the middle part of white floss 

 silk, ribbed over neatly with silver twist ; extremities, 

 brown peacock's harl ; wings and legs made buzz 

 with a mottled feather of the mallard, stained a faint 

 purple ; legs, three rabbit's whiskers. 



13. The Coachman. Body, peacock's harl, full and 

 short ; wings, fibres of any small white feather ; legs, 

 a turn or two of a red hackle. Mr. Blaine remarks : 

 " Throughout the summer months, as an early 

 evening fly, and until twilight, it proves most valuable 

 in the midland counties, and the bordering ones 

 within eighty miles of London. On the Colne, and 

 throughout its course, in the Hampshire, Dorset- 

 shire, and Devonshire waters, where we have been 

 for many years in the habit of using it, in our opinion 

 there is no fly to at all equal it." 



14. Black Palmer. Body, black ostrich harl, ribbed 

 with gold twist, black cock's hackle wound over the 

 whole. 



15. Red Palmer. Body, dark red-coloured mohair, 

 with a richly-tinted red fur intermixed, to be ribbed 

 with gold or silver twist ; legs, a blood-red cock's 

 hackle. Or, body, a peacock harl with a red cock's 

 hackle wrapped over it, and tied with dark brown 

 silk thread. 



I have used the Red Palmer in all weathers and 

 seasons for nearly fifty years, and believe it to be the 

 best general fly there is, although, strictly speaking, 

 not a fly, but an imitation of the caterpillar, or larva 



