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33. The merlin or blue hawk back, provides 

 excellent pale blue, much sought after by 

 grayling fishers ; the heron and the tern or 

 sea-swallow also yield somewhat similar 

 feathers. 



34. The Coot provides some very good hackles 

 on the back, the wings, and also under the 

 wings. 



35. The various snipes, sand pipers, stints, 

 dunlins, and other shore birds give feathers of 

 this type, though one of the best is under the 

 wing of the jack-snipe. 



36. The starling's under wing provides this 

 feather, which is often palmed off as a dotteril 

 for hackles of that ilk. 



37. The grey partridge is useful, but not as 



38. generally so as the brown one, which will kill 

 with or without a wing and with almost any 

 coloured body, where the trout are not over 

 educated. 



39-40. From the back and underwing of the 



woodcock ; they are used both as hackle or 

 wing feathers. 



41. The brown owl, used as a hackle imita- 



tion of a caddis fly. 



42-43- These three are grouse hackles of very 



44- varied colour, and all useful. 

 45. This is a landrail hackle of very useful 



colour, as are almost all the. feathers on this 

 bird. 



