28 LIST OF FLIES. 



23RD. THE SPINNER. Length, half an inch or better, 

 of which the body is three-eighths ; wings, five-eighths, 

 clear and tinged brown, with a scroll of dark and light near 

 the ends ; top of shoulders and body brown ; a round spot 

 of lighter shade on the top of each joint, running down the 

 back, which is flanked on each side by one of darker. 

 Sides of shoulders and breast mingled light and dark brown, 

 lead, ash, and azure; thighs, a dim brown transparency, 

 darkening down the legs, which are very long. There is a 

 smaller species nearly the same colors ; numerous on fogs and 

 grass in September and October. 



Body, light brown or fawn colored silk, or even woollen 

 thread, tinged with a mixture of ash, blue, and azure fur 

 at the shoulders, on a pale yellow bottom. Wings from a 

 feather out of a partridge or hen pheasant's wing ; legs, a 

 black brown cock's hackle. 



The spinners are often numerous on the banks of the 

 streams at this part of the season ; in the warm months 

 they are larger in size and more brilliant in colors ; when 

 their length and wings is five-eighths or better ; and the 

 hind legs of some two inches ; top of shoulders and body 

 a brown ash or reflective fawn color, in some lighter at the 

 joints, others uniform ; the sides of shoulders are a rich 

 light blue and azure, touched with ash, upon a pale yellow 

 bottom which shew, with the thighs, a rich dim trans- 

 parency, of a light amber shade, darkening down the legs. 

 The wings a fine rufous brown tinge and transparency, with 

 dark veins. In autumn they are exceedingly numerous, 

 and appear to breed on land and in the water, for they are 

 very often rank by the water sides and also in grass fields, 

 particularly in low swampy parts. They are good natural 

 baits in summer and autumn. 



24TH. THE STONE FLY. 16 The full length of a fine 



(16) The imitation of this, the largest of aquatic insects, is of little practical 

 use to the angler, excepting in rough water on a windy day, but I do not know finer 



