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Taken best in a showery day, as also in April or 

 June. 



LIGHT FLAMING or SPRING BROWN. Dub with 

 light brown of a calf ; warp with orange-colour j wing 

 of a pale grey mallard's feather. 



Taken chiefly before sun-set in a warm evening : A 

 good f i/. 



Although much is said, in the First Part of the 

 foregoing Dialogues, [pa. 182.] of the Oak- fly, the 

 Author has given but a vert/ superficial description of 

 it : and his directions for making it are extremely im- 

 perfect ; we would therefore recommend the making 

 it after the natural fly, and that according to the 

 following directions. 



OAK-FLY. By some called the Ash-fly, (by others, 

 erroneously, the Hawthorn-fly.) The head, which is 

 large, of an ash-colour; the upper part of the body 

 greyish, with two or three hairs of bright brown mixt, 

 and a very little light blue, and sometimes a hair or 

 two of light green ; the tail part is greyish mixt with 

 orange ; wing, of a mottled brown feather of a wood- 

 cock, partridge, or brown hen ; hook No. 8 or 9. 

 This is the fly ^hich is seen much in March, April, 

 May, and June on the body of ash-trees, oaks, wil- 

 lows, and thorns growing near the water ; standing 

 with its head downwards. It is an excellent fly, but 

 difficult to imitate, being of many colours, unequally 

 mixed. It takes, chiefly, in the morning ; it does not 

 seem to come from any cadis, for it never drops in 

 great numbers on the water ; and the wings are short, 

 and lie flat on the back, like the blue bottle, or large 

 flesh-fly. 



ORANGE-TAWNEY, ORANGE-BROWN, CAMLET-FLY, 

 ALDER-FLY, WITHY-FLY, or BASTARD CADIS. Dub 

 with dark brown spaniel's hair, or calf's hair, that 

 shines, or barge-sail ; warp with deep orange ; black 

 hackle under the wing. Wing, of a darkish feather of 

 a mallard or starling. 



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