THE BLACK AND BROWN SILVER HORNS. 235 



the colour of ash bark ; wings, light starling; hackle, pale 

 blue dun. 



There are so many flies on in July, that it is hard to 

 say which are the best, many of the May and June flies 

 being still as good as any that can be employed. Of the 

 new flies, the ant flies, where they are much found, cannot 

 be done without, moths, and the July and ashy dun ; and 

 the Phryganidae mentioned are particularly valuable. 



The July Dun very closely resembles the little iron- 

 blue. It is perhaps one shade lighter and one size larger. 



The Large Yellow Dun (p. 208, 209) also comes on 

 tolerably thickly at times. 



The Black Silver Horns (see Plate VII. fig. 19, p. 185). 

 This is a curious-looking trichopterous fly, which may 

 be seen in great numbers upon piers, bridges, and such 

 places. It looks like a small black shred. The horns, 

 from which it derives its name, are very remarkable, being 

 much longer than the body, and ringed alternately in 

 black and white. It is a favourite with the fish, particu- 

 larly in the North of France. Dress it on a No. 9 or 10 

 hook, with dark lead-coloured silk body, ribbed with yel- 

 low ; wings, of any fine-grained shiny black feather, dressed 

 rather close ; legs, a short-fibred dark slate-coloured hackle, 

 not too much of it ; and, if the angler likes to add the 

 horns, two strands of a bright speckled drake's feather will 

 be a capital imitation. There is another which is perhaps 

 a greater favourite still with the fish, and that is 



The Brown Silver Horns. The following is the dress- 

 ing of one which I took not long since on the Itchin, 

 when the fish were taking it well. Body, of rusty black 

 ostrich herl, short in the fibre, and spun on brown silk. 

 Along the sides of the fly are two bright buff stripes ; these 

 I leave to the angler to imitate or not. Two strips of 

 straw would produce the exact effect, but would make the 

 fly bulky. Hackle, dark grizzled dun ; wings (under), 



