208 SALMON AND TROUT. 
THE ‘DURHAM RANGER.’ 
Tag: Silver twist and light yellow silk. 
Tail: A topping and Indian crow. 
Butt: Black herl. 
Body: Two turns of orange silk, two turns dark orange seal’s fur; the 
rest, which is about half, black seal’s fur. 
Ribbed: Silver lace and silver tinsel. 
Hackle: From orange seal’s fur, a white coch-y-bonddu dyed orange. 
Throat: Light blue hackle. 
Wings: Four golden pheasant tippets overlapping, as illustrated, and 
enveloping two projecting jungle fowl back to back ; and a topping. 
Cheeks : Chatterer. 
fforns : Blue macaw. 
Head: Black Berlin wool. 
The Durham Ranger owes its origin to James Wright, the famous 
fly dresser of Sprowston, near Kelso; and its name to the circumstance 
of its being first successfully tried, some twenty years ago, on the Sprows- 
ton water by a party of gentlemen from Durham, to whom it-was let at 
the time. 
This was the christening of the Durham Ranger, one of the very best 
of bright flies, and one that in open pools and bright weather, no matter 
what the river, rarely fails if not mounted too large. Indeed, as a rule in 
regard to flies generally, I have often noticed that failure, particularly with 
gaudy patterns, is due to the fly being disproportionately large or small, 
