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2. A hare -lug (ear) body with a corn-bunting or cliaf- 

 6ncli wing. A woodcock wing may also be put on the same 

 body, but should be made of the small light-coloured 

 feather taken from the inside of the wing. 



3. The same wing as the last fly, with a single turn of 

 a soft black hen hackle, or a small feather taken from 

 the shoulders of the starling, dressed with dark-coloured 

 silk. 



Thus for flies proper : now for the " spiders " or 

 hackles. 



1. The black spider. This is made of the small feather 

 of the cock starling, dressed with brown silk, and is upon 

 the whole the most killing imitation we know. This fly 

 was shown to Mr Stewart by the renowned James BaUlie, 

 and it is used constantly by those gentlemen. 



3. The red spider should be made of the small feather 

 taken from the outside of the wing of the landrail, dressed 

 with yellow silk, and is deserving of a very high rank, 

 particularly in coloured water. 



3. The dun spider. This should be made of the small 

 soft dun or ash-coloured feather taken from the outside of 

 the wing of the dotterel. As this kind is scarce, a feather 

 from the inside of the wing of the starling will have t» 

 serve as a substitute. 



I can speak to the general efiiciency of all these, but 

 I cannot endorse the author's doctrine that they are suffi- 

 cient. 



In another chapter I have given a list of forty of the 

 principal flies, selected from various sources, which have the 

 highest reputation as killers, and I have included a list of 

 spiders or Palmer hackles which may be used generally 

 throughout the year. I have found a yellow drake,' dressed 



