480 APPENDIX. C. 



Silkworm gut, from the finest to the strongest, and Salmon gut, 

 single and twisted. 



Lengths of the white and sorrel hairs of stallions' tails. 



There are other fancy materials, as monkey's fur ; parrot's, king- 

 fisher's, macaw's, gold and silver pheasant feathers, and, above all, the 

 scarlet ibis. 



Fancy flies often kill when no others will witness the far-famed 

 scarlet ibis wings, with gold twist body ; no fly kills like it, year in 

 and year out, on Long Island, and it is sure death to sea-trout in the 

 gulf of St Lawrence, and everywhere to smelt, which rise at it readily. 



