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Page 72
... dark or subdued hues , with plain unmixed wings . Shannon flies have quite a contrary speciality ; they are always of gay colours , and sometimes of very gay colours , as to their bodies ; and the crest - feathers , or toppings of the ...
... dark or subdued hues , with plain unmixed wings . Shannon flies have quite a contrary speciality ; they are always of gay colours , and sometimes of very gay colours , as to their bodies ; and the crest - feathers , or toppings of the ...
Page 76
... dark red or " furnace " hackle , which is black at the outside fibre - tips , and also black at each side of the stem that runs through it . Hackles should be plucked in winter from old male birds in their full plumage . The fibres of ...
... dark red or " furnace " hackle , which is black at the outside fibre - tips , and also black at each side of the stem that runs through it . Hackles should be plucked in winter from old male birds in their full plumage . The fibres of ...
Page 82
... dark dun , add sufficient quan- tities of the sulphate and the galls . By increasing or diminishing the proportion of either of these articles , you will obtain duns of divers shades . If logwood be used instead of galls , a different ...
... dark dun , add sufficient quan- tities of the sulphate and the galls . By increasing or diminishing the proportion of either of these articles , you will obtain duns of divers shades . If logwood be used instead of galls , a different ...
Page 83
... darker hue added afterwards . Hard water should never be used in dyeing . Having given to the feathers their mordant or base , as already directed , add either sulphate of iron , sulphate of alum , acetate of alum , or acetate of copper ...
... darker hue added afterwards . Hard water should never be used in dyeing . Having given to the feathers their mordant or base , as already directed , add either sulphate of iron , sulphate of alum , acetate of alum , or acetate of copper ...
Page 87
... dark green or black hackle ; round the shoulder deep orange hackle ; wings , two toppings mixed with Argus pheasant tail- feather , brown mallard and wood - duck , and a very little blue jay over the butt of the wings , which are to lie ...
... dark green or black hackle ; round the shoulder deep orange hackle ; wings , two toppings mixed with Argus pheasant tail- feather , brown mallard and wood - duck , and a very little blue jay over the butt of the wings , which are to lie ...
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angler angling Argus pheasant Ballyshannon bittern black hackle black head black ostrich head blue and yellow blue hackle blue macaw Body brown mallard brown turkey bustard cast casting-line cloth colour dyed yellow dyeing Edition Engravings Fcap fibres fiery-brown fish flies fly-fishing fly-fishing for salmon Foolscap 8vo gold tinsel gold twist golden pheasant neck-feather grilse grouse hackle guinea-hen Invershin J. C. Loudon kill mohair months morocco orange hackle orange mohair orange tag peacock harl pig's hair pig's wool Plates pool Post 8vo red ibis ribbed with gold ribbed with silver river river Shin rod and line salmon-fishing salmon-fly season Shannon Shin side silver pheasant silver tinsel silver twist small topping smolts spawning spawning-bed Spey spotted turkey stream Sutherlandshire throw tinsel and gold tipped topping for tail trout turkey tail turkey tail-feather TWEED-FLIES vols winch winch-line Wings and hook Wood Woodcuts yellow mohair Young
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