34 LIST OF FLIES. 



smarter, and a little more slim ; wings, sparkling and glassy, 

 with a light pearly tinge, or nearly colourless transparency. 

 Eyes, head, shoulders, and the end joints of the body, a fine 

 dark brown ; legs, whisks, and middle joints, a light pearl 

 transparency. They are out and assemble in groups every 

 day and evening to the end of autumn. 



Fine coffee-brown silk for the brown parts, and white for 

 the pearl parts of the body ; winged and legged with a 

 glassy silvery cockV hackle. 



29TH. SplRALBROWNDRAKE(orCheckwing).a> Length 

 three-eighths or better ; wings the same, of a light brown 

 ground, with strong longitudinal dark lines crossed into 

 squares, with small ones, which have named them. When 

 seen through a glass the lines are back shaded with darker, 

 like the Royal Charlie. Body, a darkish ashy brown, with 

 a ring of lighter on each joint, and a light line runs alnr.g 

 each side ; whisks and legs a bloa-brown dim transparency, 

 eyes, some goggling and some cased ; as the season advances 

 they shew distinctly the slanting dark lines along the sides, 

 similar to the brown drake. 



Body, orange or yellow silk ; hackled, for wings and 

 legs, with a freckled-brown feather from the back or shoul- 

 der of a partridge, with a few fibres of hare's ear wrought 

 in at the breast. 



it comes as near the mark as it is possible, but Mr. Aldam, who speaks very highly 

 of this fly, having had excellent sport with it on the Chatsworth waters in October, 

 1852, states that a good material with which to form the body is a horse hair of trans- 

 parent watery whiteness ; I have never found the imitation work well myself, even 

 when the fish have been feeding all over the river at the natural fly ; the above- 

 named authority, together with Mr. Francis and Ronalds, name this fly the "Jenny 

 Spinner," while Jackson styles it the " Little White Spinner." 



(20) Although Mr. Ronalds treats this as a separate fly, under the name of the 

 " Turkey Brown," and Jackson as the " May Brown," I am strongly of opinion that 

 it is only a lighter shade and variety of the " March Brown ; " and thus the system 

 introduced by Mr. Francis, and also advocated by the late David Foster, of trc:i.t,iii 

 the long lists of "Browns," " Bloas," "Duns," and "Spinners," issued by oilier 

 writers, as only different shades of one fly is gradually gaining ground, and very 

 rightly so, as it greatly simplifies the art of flyfishing, and does not confuse the mind 

 of the beginner by an almost endless list of names. 



