210 TIIK SEDGE 1'I.Y AND QUILL GNAT. 



buff fur, to give it the sandy tinge ; legs, hackle from buff 

 Cochin hen ; wings, two scraps of starling, with two larger 

 slips of landrail's reddish wing feather over the starling. 

 It much resembles the sedge. 



The Grannoni or flramtaif. This is another member 

 of the Phryganidse. It has, like the last, a great name 

 with some anglers, and on some streams it is very abundant, 

 and does good service, I believe; however its duration is 

 rather limited. I must confess that I have not that faith 

 in it which it may probably deserve. Size, same as the 

 hist fly, or one size smaller ; body, hare's ear and water-rat 

 fur mixed, the former prevailing ; at the tail a turn or two 

 of pea-green floss silk to finish off and give the green tail, 

 which is in reality, a mass of eggs about to be deposited 

 by the insect, and which have that tinge ; legs, a grizzled 

 blue dun hackle, wing from the rump of a brown speckled 

 game hen. This fly lasts but for some ten days or a fort- 

 night in the earlier part of April, though others of a 

 similar specie*, with the green peculiarity at the tail, 

 appear later in the season ; I have seen them on thickly 

 as late as July. Hook, No. 11. 



The Sedge Fly. This is a capital fly for all the south- 

 ern and mid-county rivers throughout the summer, and 

 kills better later on than now ; on the Itchen, Test, 

 Dan-lit . and Kennet, it will kill well. I once, in the month of 

 May, killed with it; on Sir P. Dyke's water ontheDarent, 

 II I brace of fine fish a most unusual take on that 

 water. It much resembles the sand fly, but is larger and 

 fatter. The body is of light buff crewel ; the hackle which 

 runs from tail to head is a pale red and a fine gold wire 

 is usually run up over the hackle the reverse way ; the 

 wings are dressed full, a starling under-wing and landrail 

 upper-wing. Hooks, NOB. 8 and 9. It is occasionally 

 dressed both smaller and larger. 



The Quill Gnat makes its appearance late in April and 



