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NOTE ON THE GORDON AND BLUE 
GRANNOM FLIES. 
I N the Neversink article in September Forest 
and Stream mention is made of the late 
Theodore Gordon and of his skill as a fly 
tier. The accompanying photograph of flies 
tied in the Gordon style by H. B. Christian, of 
Neversink, N. Y., may interest your readers. 
The fly, firsr made up commercially by a well- 
known New York tackle house, generally known 
as the “Gordon,” was called a Golden Spinner 
by Gorden himself. It was never as successful 
on Neversink waters as the Blue Quill Gordon, 
shown at the left in the illustration. This fly 
has a quill body wound with gold wire, the 
effect being of a bluish body with a fine brown 
ribbing; the wings are wood duck and the 
hackle and tail of a graysh blue. 
The fly shown at the right is a Whitchurch 
Dun. 
Concerning the “Blue Granite” fly noted in 
the - same article, it is doubless the American 
or Blue Grannom. Now for a pretty piece of 
piscatorial observation regarding the same. I 
have since learned that Mr. Will L. Hall, a 
skilful and enthusiastic angler of Brooklyn, once 
remained an extra week on the Neversink for 
the particular purpose of studying this fly, with 
the result that he found it to hatch out only in 
shallow water, and that while over the water 
in dense flight for a season it was very little 
on the water, for which reasons he regards the 
artificial as of very little value. 
Yonkers N Y Geo. P ARKER Holden. 
SAFETY FOR BIRDS. 
A tract of Louisiana swamp land, covering 
85,000 acres has been bought by the Rockefeller 
foundation for the use of the birds. This swamp 
is near Marsh Island, another tract purchased for 
the same purpose by Mrs. Russell Sage. 
