FEBRUARY. 13 



from the rump of the fieldfare, dressed hackle-wise, with a 

 few fibres of fine fleshy grizzle hair or fur wrought in at 

 the breast, but all must be very small. 



2ND. THE EARLY BROWN 2 (dark or winter brown) 

 full length, near or about five-eighths of an inch ; length, 

 from three-eigths to three-eighths and one-sixteenth ; wings 

 and feelers near half an inch ; head, shoulders, and body, a 

 dark brown soil color ; legs and thighs a dark red brown 

 dim transparency ; wings, when folded, have a dark brown 

 grizzly hue and horny shine upon them, broken with dark 

 veins, and three or four wavy stripes across, of a darker 

 shade, which are more or less visible ; the under sides 

 dark, when looked through singly to the light are of a dim 

 brown transparency, shewing the dark veins. They com- 

 mence hatching the beginning of this month, and continue 

 to the end of April. 



Body, head, and shoulders, orange silk, waxed ; feathers 

 for wings from under the wing of the woodcock, of double 

 shade of color, with a few fibres of dark red brown mohair 

 wrought in at the breast for legs. 



SRD. THE LITTLE EARLY BROWN. Full length, three- 

 eighths to half an inch ; feelers and whisks, one-eighth to 

 one-fourth ; head, shoulders, breast, and body, dark brown, 

 and rather shiny, with a slight down upon them, which 

 reflects in the sun a deep gild ; feelers, legs, and thighs, a 

 dark, dim, red brown transparency, with faint deep gilded 

 reflection ; folded wings, a grizzly brown hue, veined, and 

 of a brown transparency. They are broader than the needle 

 brown, and probably males to the early brown ; they hatch 

 the beginning of this month, and continue through April. 



Hackled with a feather from under the swift's wing; 



(2) A favourite early spring trout fly among Yorkshire anglers, and usually 

 denominated by them " Woodcock and Orange." Jackson calls it the " Little Brown," 

 and his dressing is essentially the same as the author's, 



