26 PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 
making my first essay on an unknown ‘river, viz., the red 
hackle, hare’s ear and yellow, and black hackle. In Amer- 
ica, on the small trout brooks, I found them equally attract- 
ive, evidence of a similarity of taste in fish on the Eastern 
and Western Continents. Fly No. 1, the red hackle, body 
composed of rufous wool, twisted in with tying silk, lower 
portions of body to be fine, gradually increasing in thick- 
ness till the shoulder is reached. Shoulder of bright red 
cock’s hackle, the color that is obtained in a natural state 
from the domestic fowl, game-fowls generally producing 
the finest; but if those from the East Indian jungle-cock 
can be obtained, you will possess the very best. Wings 
put on separately, and obtained from the wings of the corn- 
crake, shot immediately previous to their autumnal migra- 
tion. Fly No. 2, hare’s ear and yellow; this has a tail 
composed of two strands from the larger feathers of the 
guinea-fowl, body composed of the fine mottled hair off the 
ears of a hare, mixed with fine mohair, of any of the inter- 
mediate shades from straw color to olive. The mohair 
should be cut short, so that it will the better mix with the 
hare’s ear. This dubbing must also be tied in with the silk, 
and the fly should be large at the shoulder. No hackle in 
this specimen is required. The wings from the large wing- 
feathers of the fieldfare, each placed on separately. Fly 
No. 3, black hackle; body of blue wool or mohair, finished 
at termination with a couple of turns of silver tinsel, black 
hackle from domestic fowl for shoulder, with the wing 
composed of the feather either from tail or wing of the 
water-hen. The angler had better be provided with vari- 
ous sizes of these, as rivers are not always in the same con- 
dition, and weather is variable. For me to say that other 
flies will not kill better on some rivers, or at least equally 
well, would be absurd; but those described I have found 
most generally useful. A handsome and frequently very 
