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wing. Legs. A hackle stained greenish brown, or a natural dark 

 grizzle. Hook No. 4 or 5, long. 



Oak Fly, Downhill Fly, Ash Fly, Cannon Fly, Downlooker, Woodcock 

 Fly (Order Diptera, family Rhagionidos, genus Leptio, species Scolopacce). 

 The oak fly is a comical creature to me. No matter where it is 

 perched it always looks downwards, that is, with its head like a thrush 

 struggling to pull out a worm, or like a snipe feeding. When on a per- 

 pendicular surface, instead of looking up and down indifferently, it 

 systematically looks down, hence some of its pseudonyms. It is fre- 

 quently to be seen on posts at the waterside. It is a very good fly for 

 dipping or " dopping." Body. Orange floss silk tied with ash coloured 

 silk thread, which may be shown at the tail and shoulders. Wings. 

 From a scapular feather of the woodcock. Legs. A furnace hackle, i.e., 

 a red cock's hackle, with a black list up the middle, and tinged with 

 black, also at the extremities of the fibres. This should be struck 

 from tail to head, and the fibres snipped off nearly up to where the wings 

 are set on, leaving a sufficient quantity for the legs. 



Alder Fly, Owl Fly, in Wales called the Humpback (Order Neuroptera, 

 family Sialidoe, genus Sialis, species Lutarius). This fly is present 

 in great quantities in the Thames, and I have found it quite two miles 

 away from any brook or water, but it really comes from a caddis. It was 

 a special favourite of the author of "Chalk Stream Studies," and is 

 extremely well fitted for dipping or " dopping." Body. Dark mulberry 

 floss silk, or peacock's herl, tied with black silk. Wings. From a 

 feather of a brown hen's or peahen's wing. Legs. Dark umber stained 

 hackle, or, in case of need, a black cock's hackle will answer the purpose 

 tolerably well. Hook No. 3 or 4, long. 



FLIES FOR JUNE. 



" The donne cutte.The body of blacke wull and a yellow lyste 

 after eyther syde : the wynges of the bosarde bounde on with barkyd 

 hempe. The maure flye : the body of doske wull and the wynges of the 

 blackest mayle of the wylde drake. The tandy flye at Saynt WyJlyams 

 daye : the body of tandy wull and the wynges contrary eyther agenst 

 other of the whitest mayle of ye wylde drake." (Book of St. Albans.) 



Green Drake, Man Fly, Cadow (Order Neuroptera, family Ephemeridce, 

 genus Ephemera, species Vulgata, [pseud-imago]). This fly is the pseud- 

 imago of the May fly, and I have not thought fit to illustrate it in its 

 imperfect state, preferring, in place, to give a representation of the imago 

 in the following, or Grey Drake fly. As 1 have fully given its history in 

 a former part of this chapter, I shall not now add to my previous obser- 

 vations as to its natural history. Body. The middle part is of pale 



