40 LIST OF FLIES. 



the sun ; under wings a uniform bloa tinge, and fringed. 

 Body a leady hue ; legs a white yellow. Is something like 

 the early dun, but has been observed to hatch freely the 

 latter end of this month and the beginning of May. 



Hackled with a freckled bloa feather from the golden 

 plover ; for wings and legs, copper-colored silk, tinged with 

 water-rat's blue fur. 



42ND FRECKLED DuN. 25 Full length, better than half 

 an inch to five-eighths ; length, three-eighths or more ; 

 wings, better than half an inch, the top ones a dark red 

 brown ground and transparency, with longitudinal dark 

 veins ; and beautifully freckled with marks and spots of a 

 fawn or buff color. Light side lines, broadest next the 

 shoulders ; back, belly, thighs, and legs, a dark, reddish ash 

 or lead color the two last joints of the body darkest ; eyes 

 dark the side lines light copper color. 



This is a fine dun fly, the produce of the stickbait. They 

 appear to hatch twice a year, commencing this month, and 

 are plentiful in May and June, and again in September and 

 October. After hatching they may be seen flying about in 

 the day-time ; their eggs are an amber color. 



Winged and legged with a freckled feather from the 

 moorcock ; and orange silk or copper colored silk for body 

 winged with slips from the moorcock, and .legged with 

 moorcock's hackle ; body, tinged with water-rat's blue fur. 



43RD. LIGHT DUN. 26 Full length, better than half an 

 inch to five-eighths ; length, three-eighths or more ; wings, 

 better than half an inch, the top ones near the shade of the 

 outer skin of a dried onion, with faint mottles and cross- 

 ings a shade darker ; body, thighs, and legs, a light bees'- 



(25) The imitation of this fly, dressed as above, is an excellent killer on the 

 Laver, a small brook near Ripon, which after joining the Skell flows into the Yore, a 

 little distance below the city ; locally this fly is known as " Moorcock and Spicey Silk." 



(26) "Alder Fly" of other writers; Mr. Francis recommends it as a useful 

 evening fly, and Mr. Ronalds remarks that, where plentiful, it is best fished natural. 



