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No. 3. Tag, pale blue floss ; tail, sprigs of golden pheasant 

 tippet, and fine blue macaw points ; body, golden yellow floss, 

 gold thread ; hackle, dark olive, with one turn of jay at 

 shoulder ; wing, mixed golden pheasant tail and tippet, brown 

 mallard and gallina ; head, black. Small size. 



No. 4. Tag, gold thread and orange floss ; tail, a small 

 orange toucan feather ; body, dark blue floss ; black hackle, 

 fine silver tinsel ; wing, gold pheasant tail (the streaked 

 feather), and tippet, with some teal over ; head, black. Small 

 size. 



No. 5. Tag, silver twist and ruby floss ; tail, mixed sprigs of 

 golden pheasant tippet, gallina, and fine blue macaw sprigs ; 

 body, dark blue floss, gold thread ; black hackle, with a red- 

 brown one at shoulder ; wing, bustard, with fibres of gallina and 

 golden pheasant tippet over ; head, black. Size largish. 



No. 6. Tag, gold thread and a bit of lemon-yellow crewel ; 

 tail, red parrot ; body, medium purple claret pig's wool picked 

 out, silver tinsel ; red hackle only at shoulder ; wing, bright 

 teal ; head, black. Size medium. 



Here is a number of patterns for the t west and north-west 

 of Ireland, collected by myself on the spot. I have found 

 them to be first-rate killers, and do not hesitate strongly to 

 commend them. The first is a capital fly for Erris, and will 

 slaughter not only white trout, but when the water is low will 

 kill salmon. It was given to me by a gentleman who had lived 

 for years at Bangor, and who had fished all the streams in that 

 part incessantly. I killed baskets of white trout with it, and 

 although the river was so low that there had not been a salmon 

 killed for weeks, on the first morning that I was there we went 

 out on the Owenmore, played and lost one salmon and killed 

 another of eleven pounds. 



No. i. Tail, a few sprigs of blue jay ; body, two turns of 

 medium blue floss, the rest black pig's wool mingled with a 

 few fibres of lightish brown or dirty grey fur to give the body 

 a sort of rusty appearance, silver thread ; black hackle ; wing, 

 plain, from the jay's wing, choose a bit which is dark towards 

 the butt. Two sizes. 



No. 2. Tag, golden-yellow floss ; tail, sprigs of red and 

 green parrot, and golden pheasant tippet ; body, black pig's 

 wool, silver thread ; black hackle, with two turns of jay at 

 shoulder ; wing, mixed, of brown and grey mallard, fibres of 

 golden pheasant with four or five sprigs 'of blue macaw. Size, 

 full. With this fly I once killed nearly a hundredweight of 



