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No. 1. A blue and blood-red hackle over a golden olive body, gold tinsel, and orange silk tag. Wings, mallard, golden pheasant neck-feather, blue macaw and red parrot; black head. Hook, No. 7 and 8.

No. 2. Two blue hackles over a fiery-brown body; wings, &c., as before.

No. 3. Golden brown body, same coloured hackle and gold tinsel; tag, gold-coloured fur and a little of the same under the shoulder; wings, &c., as before.

For the same river at settled water; orange body, black hackle, gold twist and mallard wings; also, blue silk body, blue hackle, silver twist, and wings as before. Bodies of all shades of grey fur and hackles, with tags at tail and shoulder of yellow, red, fiery-brown, gold colour, and golden olive mohair, ribbed with silver twist, and having plain brown mallard tails and wings, will prove good killers. Hook, No. 8 and 9.

Flies for Waterville, County Kerry.

No. 1. Body, fiery-brown mohair, same coloured hackle, gold twist, and a small claret hackle round the shoulder. Wings, mallard, fibres of blue macaw, and golden pheasant neck-feathers neatly

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mixed; tail, a couple of fibres of mallard, red ibis, blue macaw and golden pheasant neck-feathers; black ostrich head. Hook, No. 7 and 8.

No. 2. Body, dun fur, ribbed with silver twist and blue dun hackle; bright yellow tag, and a little yellow mohair at the shoulder. Wings, head, tail, and hooks as before.

No. 3. Body, claret pig's hair, ribbed with gold tinsel and black hackle; yellow tag at tail, and a roll of black ostrich harl above it. Wings, head, tail, and hooks as before.

I recommend Waterville, which is about thirtysix miles beyond Killarney to salmon and sea-trout fishers. Mr. Butler, the exceedingly liberal proprietor of the waters there, will allow any gentleman to fish them. The large Waterville lake teems with the finest sea-trout in the kingdom. I regret to be informed by eye-witnesses, that there are individuals, who abuse Mr. Butler's permission to fairly fly-fish his salmon river, by pretending they are doing so, whilst at the same time they are carrying into effect the unsportsmanlike and disreputable practice of " stroke-hauling,” that is, sinking a large hook, sometimes a double or treble one, hauling it in at quick jerks, and so hooking foul the fish the hook comes in contact with. Many a fish is hooked and lacerated with

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out being caught; and I hope that Mr. Butler, being now publicly advised of the most objectionable practice, will peremptorily order its discontinuance.

Standard Welsh-Flies.

The reader will perceive on the 5th Plate, a representation of a model Welsh-fly, and at page 94-5. he will read a description of it. following flies are standard ones for rivers of the principality.

The seven the salmon

No. 1. Body, dingy yellow mohair, with same coloured very full hackle, and ribbed with gold tinsel; wings, two back or bittern neck-feathers, tied on Tweed fashion. Hook, No. 5. The hackles of Welsh-flies are generally very long in the fibre, and are wound closely, without clipping their points, from almost the bend of the hook upwards to the wings.

No. 2. Body, light brown coloured mohair, ginger hackle, gold twist and bittern feathers for wings. Hook, No. 6.

No. 3. Body, dingy orange mohair, furnace hackle, gold tinsel, and full mallard wings. Hook, No. 5 6 and 7.

No. 4. Body, fiery-brown mohair, same COloured hackle and gold tinsel; wings, light brown

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turkey tail-feather, set on Tweed fashion, and hooks as before.

No. 5. Body, dingy yellow mohair, over which strike closely a grizzled blue dun hackle of very long fibres. Wings, cinnamon brown turkey tailfeather; head same as body; tail, a mixture of red macaw and teal feathers. Hook, No. 5.

No. 6. Body as before, and over it a light blue dun hackle of long fibres. Wings, brown spotted turkey-tail feather; tail, red mohair cut short, and head, pure yellow. Hook, No. 5 and 6.

No. 7. Body, a mixture of grey, blue, and yellow mohair, with a long-fibred darkish blue dun hackle, struck closely from the tail up to the wings, which are to be of light brown spotted turkey tail-feather; tail, a few short bustard feather fibres. Hook, No. 6 and 7.

Local Welsh Flies.

No. 1. Body, orange pig's hair; legs, two yellow-dun hackles, struck up from the tail to the shoulder. Wings, light brown-yellow turkey tail-feather; tail, a bit of red ibis, and a small widow's crest-feather; head, orange-coloured wool. Hook, No. 3. This fly is only fit for full water, clearing after a flood.

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No. 2. Body, turbid orange wool; legs, a dun hackle, dyed the colour of the body. Wings, a light, spotted, turkey tail-feather, dyed yellow; tail, red toucan, and brown turkey tail-feather. Hook, No. 5.

No. 3. Body, sooty yellow wool; legs, a dun hackle dyed brown. Wings, a spotted cinnamoncoloured tail-feather; tag and tail, red worsted. Hook, as before.

No. 4. Body, dark orange worsted, or pig's wool; legs, two dark-dun hackles rolled up from tail to shoulder, round which a yellow-green hackle. Wings, dark-brown spotted turkey tailfeather; tail, neck-feather of the golden pheasant drawn in short. Hook, as before.

No. 5. Body, dark orange wool ribbed with silver twist; legs, two grizzled-dun hackles from tail to shoulder. Wings, two body-feathers of the bittern; head, green peacock sword-feather, one or two fibres of which are to be left hanging from the butt of the wings; tail, short red and blue macaw feathers. Hook, No. 6.

No. 6. Body, yellow-green wool, ribbed with blue mohair; legs, a long, light-dun hackle from tail to shoulder. Wings, as before; tail, blue wool. Hook, No. 7.

No. 7. Body, fiery-brown wool; legs, dun