The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Tail

A topping with one chatterer feather on each side. Butt. - Scarlet wool. Ribs. -Oval silver tinsel. Body. -Flat silver tinsel. Hackle. Light blue. Shoulder hackle. Guinea fowl. Wings. Single strands, mixed, of golden pheasant tail and tippet, bustard, summer-duck, silver-grey turkey, swan dyed yellow, blue and red, with a topping above. Horns-Blue macaw.

H Head. Scarlet wool.

THE DUNT.

A fly with "single strip flat" wings and "fur" body.

Tag. Silver twist and light blue floss.

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