FLIES FOK FEBEUAKY AND MARCH. 95 



No. 8. The furnace-fly. Body, orange-co- 

 loured silk ; wings, a fieldfare's feather ; legs, a 

 cock's furnace-hackle. A good general fly. The 

 feather called the furnace -hackle is rather a rare 

 one. Its outside fibres are a beautiful dark red ; 

 that portion of them next to the stem being black. 

 It is got from a cock's neck. 



No. 9. Ho flanks fancy. Body, reddish dark- 

 brown silk; wings, woodcock's wing; legs, red 

 hackle ; tail, two strands of a red hackle. Hook, 

 No. 10. This is a good general fly for trout and 

 dace, particularly in the rivers near London. 



No. 10. The Maltby. Body, cinnamon-brown 

 mohair ; wings, woodcock's wing-feather ; legs, 

 small black-red hackle; tail, two fibres of the 

 brown mallard's feather ; gold tip. Hook, No. 12. 



No. 11. The cuckoo dun. Body, lightest part 

 of water-rat's fur, mixed with yellow mohair ; 

 wings, hen pheasant's wing-feather ; legs, a dun 

 cock's hackle, with dark bars like a cuckoo's 

 back-feather ; tail, two fibres of a grizzled hackle. 

 Hook, No. 10. 



No. 12. The March-brown, or dun drake. 

 This is, perhaps," the best fly that can be used 

 from the middle of March to the middle of April, 

 and sometimes up to May. It is a large, showy fly, 

 and almost as great a favourite in March as the 

 May- fly in May. It has various names, viz. the 

 cob-fly, brown caughlan, and turkey-fly, and kills 



