138 LIST OF FLIES. 



and taken from a woodcock's wing-feather. Hook, 

 No. 4. or 5. 



5. The Sand Fly. Body of the sand-co- 

 lour fur from a hare's poll. Legs, a light red 

 hen's hackle. Wings, from a landrail's wing- 

 feather. Hook, No. 3. 



6. The Grannam, or Green-tail. The lower 

 part of the body is made of two or three turns of 

 dark green floss silk, forming a tag, and the rest 

 of the body of fur from a hare's ear. The legs 

 are imitated either by picking out this fur with a 

 needle, so that the fibres may stand out roughly 

 to resemble a hackle, or else with other fibres 

 tied in after the body is put on a somewhat 

 difficult operation for a novice, or a small dark 

 partridge hackle may be wound on. Wings, from 

 the wing-feather of a partridge or hen pheasant, 

 to \\zflat along the back. Hook, No. 3. 



7. The Hare's Flax (the Male Grannam). 

 The body may be made either of straw-colour 

 floss silk, or of fur from a hare's ear, ribbed with 

 yellow silk thread. Legs as for the grannam. 

 Wings, from a wing-feather of the woodcock, to 

 lie flat along the back. Hook, No. 3. 



8. The Whirling Dun. Whisks from a red 

 cock's hackle. Body, blue fur from a hare or 

 squirrel's skin (found among the roots and col- 



