178 FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS. 



Letter G, the natural, and H, the artificial cow-dung fly. The 

 body of lemon-yellow mohair and a yellow feather, whip- 

 ped with yellow silk, and the wings of grayish-blue feather 

 of a hen, land-rail, or mallard. This is one of the taking 

 flies for March and April, and the best that I ever saw were 

 tied by Pritchard Bros. 



Letter K, the artificial, and L, the natural blue dun or violet 

 fly. Body of light worsted violet, mixed with gray down ; 

 the wings from the pale feathers of a starling's wing, whip- 

 ped with pale yellow silk. The black gnat, early and late 

 bright browns or cinnamons, palm fly, and whirling dun, 

 with the blue dun, dun drake, with palmers, hackles, and 

 the stone fly, are intended for both March and April. 

 Letter M, the natural, and N", the artificial hawthorn fly. 

 Body of black ostrich herl or black seal's fur, mixed with 

 buif mohair ; wings of horn shavings, or of the palest 

 snipe's feather or mallard's wing. 



Letter O, the natural, and P, the artificial oak fly. This is a 

 May insect, famous under the names of oak fly, camlet fly, 

 down-hill fly, and canon fly. The body* is dubbed with 

 dark brown shining camlet, whipped with very fine green 

 silk, or is made with a bittern's feather, and the wings from 

 the double gray feather of a mallard or of a woodcock. 

 Letter Q, the natural, and R, the artificial green drake or 

 green May-fly, the common fresh-water fly for May. The 

 body is dubbed with hog's down or light bear's hair, mix- 

 ed with yellow mohair, whipped with pale floss silk, and a 

 small strip of peacock's herl for the head ; the wings from 

 the rayed feathers of the mallard, dyed yellow ; the hackle 

 from the bittern's neck, and the tail from the long hairs of 

 the sable or ferret. 



The gray drake is similar in form, but different in colors, 

 having the body dubbed with whitish hog's down, mixed 

 with black spaniel's fur or white ostrich herl, whipped with 

 black silk ; the wings dark gray mallard ; black hackle, with 

 silver twist ; whisks of tail from a black cat's whiskers. 



