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a cushion for the tail, may be indefinitely varied, but thé colour 
of the wings and legs needs no variation. I should class them 
all as ‘nondescripts,’ because, though bearing a general resem - 
blance to insects occasionally seen, I have never caught on or 
near a lake a fly of which any one of the four can be fairly 
called an imitation. 
5. Bright red landrail wing, yellowish red hackle and body. 
This fly is, I think, improved by a second hackle with some fine 
gold twist carried palmer-fashion down the body. Without this 
adjunct it closely resembles a red sand fly, larger and brighter 
than usual. I employ it only in lochs such as Ericht or Fruchie, 
where there is a fair sprinkling of char, for which loveliest of 
Salmonid@ it seems to have a special attraction, particularly if you 
sink it deep and move it slowly. 
I was much struck a few days since by a passage in Mr. 
Black’s ‘ Yolande,’ where his hero casts expressly for a brace 
of char. He has perfectly worded the results of my own 
experience. 
6. A.wingless fly ; black hackle, shoulders ostrich herl, body of 
warm orange silk. This fly I have occasionally found most killing, 
especially in rocky tarns, and in mountain streams with a bed of 
rock and stony gravel. I believe it represents a black-sharded, 
orange-bodied beetle frequent about such waters. I have named 
it ‘Chaloner’s Pet, in honour of the inventor, a frequent angling 
companion many—can it be fifty?—years ago, and whom I still 
rejoice to hear of as wielding a deadly rod on Loch Awe. 
