I5O ON FLY MAKING. 



(July Dun). Body, blue rabbit's fur, mixed with 

 yellow mohair ; wings, the bluest part of a fieldfare's 

 wing, stained slightly yellow ; legs, a darkish dun 

 hackle. Tying silk, yellow. 



The Iron-Blue Dun Family or Order may be 

 dressed as under : 



FOR APRIL AND MAY, also SEPTEMBER AND 

 OCTOBER (Iron-Blue Dun). Body, blue fur from the 

 owl, spun around mulberry-coloured silk ; wings, from 

 the male merlin hawk's wing ; legs, a freckled blue dun 

 hackle, stained slightly by brown dye. Tying silk, 

 mauve. For the light shade, the body should be dressed 

 with a strip of a quill feather, stained the desired 

 hue, or the tying silk only may serve for the purpose. 



AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER (Little Pale Blue). 

 Body, a small portion of pale blue fur, mixed with a 

 little yellow mohair, spun upon pale yellow or primrose- 

 coloured silk ; wings, from the quill feather, or from 

 the small feathers upon the knob of the wing of the 

 sea-swallow a pair of the latter to be used back-to- 

 back ; legs, a pale dun hackle. 



OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER (October Dun). To be 

 dressed from same materiar as the shades of the Olive 

 Duns for April. The size the same as the Iron Blue, 

 and therefore one-half that of the olive order. 



GENERAL FLIES (Red Spinner). Body, copper- 

 coloured silk, ribbed with round gold thread ; whisks, 

 three strands from a red feather from the back saddle 

 of a game cock ; legs, fiery brown hackle, from the 

 neck of the same bird ; wings, from an old starling's 

 end quill. 



