480 APPENDIX.—0. 
Silkworm gut, from the finest to the strongest, and Salmon gu 
single and twisted. i 
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. 
