72 FLIKS FOK WAll(;ir. 



It is made tlius : Bodv, the reddest strand of a 

 peacock's feather. 



Legs and Wings. A lightish dun hackle ; 

 made with mulberry-coloured silk. It is called 

 " The Little Chap," and is described with varia- 

 tions, by Arundo, in "Practical Fly-fishino-," p. 26. 



No. 8. MAECII BEOWN. 



The nympha of this fly seems to require a 

 warmer day to enable it to rise to the surface of 

 the water, and to change to a fly, than is re- 

 quired for the similar rise and metamorphosis of 

 the Blue Dun's nympha (No. 2); the fly lives 

 three days in the state represented in the figure, 

 then changes into the Great Eed Spinner (see 

 fig. 9). The male has a chocolate hue, and the 

 female a green brown ; it generally appears in 

 great numbers upon the streams, wdiere it is 

 found toward the latter end of March, and is 

 very eagerly devoured by the Trout. It con- 

 tinues in season until May ; and although it can 

 only occasionally be found later, recent ex- 

 perience has convinced me of the propriety of 

 using it, upon some waters, as late even as Juty 

 or August. 



