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Ronalds treats as quite distinct from the March 

 brown, but which others, including the writer, have 

 confused for a while. I noticed this insect in 

 sparse numbers on several trout streams last 

 summer, including the Lea and the Test, and saw 

 it once or twice taken by trout and dace. It 

 is a chalk stream fly which the tiers might with 

 advantage set to work to try and produce some 

 really good imitations of. Angling one appa- 

 rently hopeless afternoon last season on the Lea, 

 I floated a March brown over a nice bit of 

 ripple under the far bank. Hearing a footstep 

 behind me, I took my eyes off the fly to see who 

 had come up, when a heavy plunge recalled my 

 attention in a second. " Did you happen to see 

 him ? " I asked the keeper. " Yes, sir, distinctly ; 

 a three pounder if an ounce," was the reply ; " I 

 made sure you had him." It is quite conceivable 

 that my March brown had been mistaken by this 

 big trout — who took care not to come again — for 

 the turkey brown which was on the water the same 

 day. Mr. Halford points out in his " Dry-Fly 

 Entomology " that the turkey brown has three 

 setc^, while the March brown has only two. The 

 grannom is chiefly associated with Test, Kennet, 

 and Lambourne, where it is sometimes, during its 

 short period of existence as a siib-hiiago in the 

 spring, taken with eagerness by the trout. But 

 from what I have heard from those who are tho- 

 roughly well acquainted with the insect, I should 

 be inclined to describe it rather as a very well 

 known than a highly important fly from the 

 south country angler's standpoint. The female 

 is conspicuous by the bunch of green eggs she 

 carries at her tail. The blue-winged olive dun, 



