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the artificials. In Cumberland and some of the 

 northern counties, the olive dun is termed the 

 4 light snipe ' or the ' dark snipe,' according as the 

 fly is dressed light or dark, the feathers for the 

 wings being taken from the wing of the full snipe, 

 for the former from the inside, for the latter from 

 the outside of the wing. Again, the iron-blue 

 is called the little iron - blue at times, in 

 order, I suppose, to distinguish it from the 

 July dun. 



It is to be regretted that the nomenclature 

 adopted by Theakstone is so original, for it 

 renders his charming and otherwise valuable 

 work well-nigh useless to fishermen, despite the 

 efforts of the editor to render it intelligible to all. 

 The names which he adopts are neither entomo- 

 logical nor piscatorial. It is, nevertheless, a 

 work possessing deep interest and much valuable 

 information. It cannot fail to strike those who 

 peruse it how earnest he must have been in his 

 investigations, how true a sportsman to be so 

 much in earnest, and how engrossing sport, when 

 coupled ever so modestly with science, can be ; 

 without the aid of the latter, how wanting in real 

 interest. 



The present chapter is already somewhat over- 

 lengthy, so I will here close it, and defer making 

 mention of the other flies on our list until the 

 commencement of a fresh one. 



