FLIES FOR MAY. 107 



No. 37. Grouse-hackle. Body, gold-coloured 

 floss-silk ; wings and legs, light-brown grouse 

 hackle, from the neck of the bird. Hook, 10 

 and 11. The last three are general summer flies. 



No. 38. The little yellow Sally. Body, light 

 buff-coloured fur ; wings, the yellow feather 

 under the thrush's wing, to stand erect ; legs, a 

 very small yellow-dun hackle ; tail, two fibres of 

 the same. Hook, No. 13. 



No. 39. The black gnat. Body, black ostrich 

 harl clipped close to the stem to shorten the 

 fibres ; wings, starling's wing-feather ; legs, a turn 

 or two of small black hackle at the shoulder ; tip, 

 gold or silver tinsel. Hook, 12 or 13. 



No. 40. Hawthorn fly. Body, black ostrich 

 harl clipped in the fibre, and dressed long and 

 spare, with two or three turns of a black hackle 

 round the shoulder ; wings, pinion-feather of the 

 jay's wing. Hook, 9 and 10. 



No. 41. Sky-blue. This is one of Mr. Konalds" 

 beauties, bred, he says, from a water-nymph. I 

 have a high opinion of its attractions when the 

 water is low and clear, and the weather propitious 

 breezy, warm, with alternate cloud and sunshine. 

 Let it be dressed carefully on a small hook with 

 fine gut, and it will kill when larger flies are of 

 no use. It is made thus : Body, pale ginger 

 mohair mixed with light-blue fur ; wings, from a 

 feather of the sea-swallow; legs, a pale-yellow 



