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few fibres of tippet, kingfisher on either cheek, blue macaw 

 ribs, and one topping over all ; black head. 



No. 3. Tag, silver tinsel and mulberry floss ; tail, a topping 

 and some wood-duck ; butt, black ostrich ; body, gold floss 

 two turns, one-third yellow, the rest very dark olive pig'? 

 wool ; hackle, black, blue jay on shoulder ; under wing, a 

 tippet feather, over it, gold pheasant tail, pintail, mallard, a 

 gold pheasant rump feather, a topping over all, blue macaw 

 ribs. Medium hooks in spring, smaller for summer, 6 and 7, 

 8, 9 and 10. See also No. 8 of the Ness flies ; also the High- 

 lander. 



THE OYKEL 



Patterns from Farlow. 



No. i. Tag, silver twist and pale yellow floss ; tail, a top- 

 ping and kingfisher ; body, black floss, over this spirals of 

 si ver twist, bright red floss, and silver tinsel (the floss in the 

 middle), all these together almost equal in breadth to the 

 black floss. A whisp of red mohair at breast ; over this a few 

 strands of gallina and blue jay, about one turn of each, over 

 all black heron's hackle, not too thick, but reaching to the 

 bend ; wing, gold pheasant tail and tippet fibres, over it some 

 teal, bustard and gallina, yellow macaw ribs ; orange-yellow 

 crewel head. 



No. 2. Tag, gold twist and orange-yellow floss ; tail, a 

 topping ; body, copper-red floss ; medium silver tinsel ; 

 hackle, medium olive, bustard hackle at shoulder ; wing, 

 florican and galling, with dirty red and yellow fibres, brown 

 mallard over and a few gallina fibres over that, blue macaw 

 ribs ; black head. 



No. 3. Tag, gold twist, burnt sienna floss ; tail, tippet and 

 gallina fibres, thin ; butt, black ostrich ; body, one quarter 

 medium orange floss, three quarters black floss ; silver tinsel 

 and greenish olive hackle, one turn of yellowish olive at 

 shoulder ; wing, orange-yellow and dirty red fibres, with a 

 few blue macaw, slips of bustard, a bit of silver mottled turkey 

 or peacock in the middle, blue macaw ribs ; black head ; 

 hooks from 6 to 8. 



THE BRORA 



The Brora is a river which has for many years remained in 

 the same hands, and as little is known about it by the public, 



