CHAPTER XIII. 



FEATHERS FOR FLIES' WINGS. 



Fife. 



Plate 13. 



32-33. Are from a golden pheasant. No. 32 is 



used for wing cases {Elytra) in dressing beetles, 

 where a dark colour with a metallic gloss is 

 required. The orange and black provides a 

 very good imitation of the soldier beetle. 

 Single fibres are also useful for the tails of 

 Ephemera, &c. 



34 Is from a tern or sea swallow, which has 



a number of hackles as well as wing feathers 

 of a very delicate pale blue grey, decidedly 

 suggestive of a variety of small duns. Gray- 

 ling esteem this colour highly. 



35. From our old favourite the starling, which, 

 although one of the commonest, is among the 

 most useful of birds, providing also small dark 

 glossy hackles of fine quality. 



36. Blackbird ; good alike in texture and 

 colour for a dark coloured dun. 



^']. Coot or Waterhen wing ; a fine texture, 



and possessing just the right brownish tinge 

 for many of the stone flies. 



