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feathers of a hen, which approach the colour 

 of cinnamon ; the hody of any dark brown 

 fur, and a ginger hackle for legs. 



The writer has had excellent diversion 

 with this fly in the months of August and 

 September, in the Welch rivers ; but has been 

 unable to meet with any description of it in 

 the several treatises upon Angling which 

 he has from time to time perused. A repre- 

 sentation is given in Walton and Cotton's 

 Complete Angler, p. 342, plate 13, of a fly 

 which in form exactly resembles this, but is of 

 much larger dimensions ; neither do the ma- 

 terials for composing it correspond with the 

 description here given as to colour, 8cc. 



PLATE VIII. 



Nos. 33 and 34 represent the sand fly ; 

 the former with the wings raised, in order to 

 shew the size of the body ; the latter to point 



