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same colour as body, blue jay at shoulder ; wing, as in No. 2, 

 the gold pheasant tail perhaps predominating more and with 

 blue ribs. 



No. 4. Tag, silver twist and puce floss ; tail, a topping and 

 some tippet ; butt, black ostrich ; body, two-thirds light 

 orange floss, one-third dark fiery orange-red floss ; silver 

 tinsel ; medium claret hackle, grouse hackle at shoulder ; 

 wing, the same as in No. 3, with a slight increase of gallina ; 

 head, black. 



No. 5. Tag, silver twist and puce floss ; tail, a topping 

 and some tippet ; butt, black ostrich ; body, gold-coloured 

 floss, three turns, the rest of dark orange pig's wool, silver 

 twist ; light red claret hackle, grouse ditto at shoulder ; wing, 

 three toppings, two strips of bright well-marked bittern wing, 

 and some tippet sprigs, a couple of good long kingfisher, one 

 on either shoulder, and blue macaw ribs ; a very pretty, 

 taking-looking fly. 



No. 6. Tag, silver tinsel and mulberry floss ; tail, a topping, 

 and tippet sprigs ; butt, black ostrich ; body, two-thirds a 

 greenish-yellow mohair, and one-third dirty olive mohair ; 

 broad gold tinsel ; hackle, brown when held down, but golden- 

 olive when held up to the light, with grouse on shoulder ; 

 under wing some tippet and tail sprigs with gallina, and a 

 brown mallard wing over, kingfisher on shoulder, and blue 

 macaw ribs. 



No. 7. The H.I.S. This fly will be found noticed in the 

 letter of a friend under " Owenmore and Ballycroy." Tag, 

 silver tinsel ; tail, a topping, and some tippet ; body, orange- 

 yellow floss, gold tinsel ; coch y bondu hackle ; a few turns 

 of longish black heron at the shoulder give it a spider-like 

 look ; wing, brown mallard, two or three fibres of blue macaw, 

 blue jay hackled over the wing. A capital killer. 



The size of the hooks for the above flies is from 5 to 8. 



LOUGH MELVIN 



On this fine lough, which is some seven miles in length, 

 and contains salmon, grilse, charr, lake, gillaroo, and other 

 trout in abundance, and is not far from the Erne, the flies 

 used are as sober as those of the Erne are often gaudy. 



No. I. The O'Donoghue. This is a prime favourite. Tag, 

 gold tinsel and orange floss; tail, a topping; butt, black 

 ostrich ; body, olive-yellow pig's wool, merging into bright 



