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Little Yellow May-fly: Body of yellow 

 silk; legs, a light-ginger hackle; wings, a 

 fieldfare's feather stained yellow. 



Another way : Body, yellow monkey's fur ; 

 wings, from the feather of a dotterel's wing. 

 To be dressed with lemon-coloured silk. Both 

 these little flies are capital killers. 



Silver -twist Hackle : Body, of a black- 

 ostrich herl, ribbed with silver- twist; legs, a 

 black cock's hackle. To be dressed with puce- 

 coloured silk. 



Fern Fly : Body, the brown fur from a 

 fox's breast; legs, a pale-dun hackle; wings, 

 of the palest fibres from the feather of a 

 thrush's wing. To be dressed with orange- 

 coloured silk. A killing fly for grayling. 



JUNE. 



The Green-drake, or May -fly : * The 

 reason we place this celebrated fly in our list 



* The following is a condensed history of this " delicate 

 and fragile creature, this emblem of human life, this being 

 of a day." The ephemera, or May-fly, undergoes the same 

 number of metamorphoses as the rest of insects. As a 

 worm and nymph it is an inhabitant of the waters, where 

 it acquires its growth so slowly, that, with regard to the 

 length of these portions of its life, it has been at least as 



