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derives the name of green-tail? says Bain- 

 bridge, "from a Lunch of eggs, of a green 

 colour, which drop on the water at the moment 

 of the fly's touching that element." The body 

 is made of the dark fur from a hare's ear, mixed 

 with a small portion of blue fur; the tail is 

 made of the green herl taken from the eye of a 

 peacock's feather ; the legs, a pale-ginger hac- 

 kle ; and the wings, of a hen pheasant's feather. 



Light-blue Dun: This ily is to be dressed 

 exactly like that of the same colour recom- 

 mended for January, except that the hook 

 must be a No. 2 Kendal. 



Yellow Dun : Body, yellow silk ; legs, a 

 yellow-dun hackle; and wings from a feather 

 of the red-wing. 



Stone Fly : Body of the fur from the dark 

 part of a hare's ear mixed with a little brown 

 and yellow mohair, and ribbed over with yellow 

 silk rather closely towards the tail; legs, a 

 dark-grizzled cock's hackle of great length; 

 wings, which must lie flat upon the body and 

 not be longer, or at least very little longer, 

 than the body, to be made of the dark -mottled 

 feather of a hen pheasant or pea-hen; tail, two 

 rabbit's whiskers. This fly is in season from 



