APRIL. 37 



Pale orange or dim yellow silk, and red cock's-hackle 

 feather. 



3 5TH. HAWTHORN FLY. ** Full length from three-eighths 

 to half an inch ; length nearly the same. Head, shoulders, 

 body, and legs, jet black and shiny, thinly set with black 

 short hair ; wings fine, of a light grizzly transparency. 

 They resemble the cow dung or lion fly, but are a little 

 more slender, and, like him, is a savage warrior fly, devour- 

 ing others. They are sheathed, body and limbs, in glossy 

 black mail, haunting hawthorn trees and hedges. They are 

 bred on land, making their appearance the latter end of 

 this month, and are gone by the end of May. 



Head, shoulders, and body, black silk, with black seal's 

 fur or mohair twisted or wrought in ; winged with a light 

 neutral feather from the snipe or starling ; with a black 

 hen-hackle for legs. 



36TH. BED BROWN DRAKE. Length, about three- 

 eighths ; wings rather more ; in outline and clouded wing 

 it resembles the brown drake, but is less in size, and its 

 colors all darker; the wings resembling the mottled red 

 feather in the partridge's tail. Body orange, with dark red 

 brown marks on the upper parts ; legs, a dim ale or amber. 

 Hatches the latter end of this month, and casts her skin, 

 when she becomes the dark amber drake. 



Dressed with a mottled red feather out of the partridge 

 tail, and orange silk, with a few fibres of orange or amber 

 mohair at the breast. 



(22) This fly is generally dressed as a palmer, as recommended by Ronalds, or 

 dressed like a large black gnat, as suggested by Mr. Francis and Jackson. I have 

 only had good sport with the imitation on one occasion, when on a gloomy day in 

 August, 1868, while fishing in the Yore below Eipon, I killed eleven fine grayling ; 

 there was a full water, and the fish would look at no other fly. I should say that if 

 fished natural, on a small hook, this fly would kill well on trout streams overhung 

 by hawthorn bushes, but not having tried it I cannot speak from experience, but 

 merely give the hint for what it may be worth. 



