22 LIST OF FLIES. 



numerous, in the fields among the grass, to the end of the 

 season. They are a savage fly, preying upon others ; and 

 from their strong shoulders, black bristly mane, and tawny 

 hide, might be called the lion fly. They fly much about, 

 and are often blown, or fall casually, on the waters, when 

 their rich colors, reflections, and size, are natural and attrac- 

 tive to fish. They are most conspicuous this month and 

 next, and from September to the end. 



15TH. THE BROWN DRAKE" (March brown). Length, 

 near or about half an inch ; wings, half an inch to five- 

 eighths, which are of a dim light brown ground, broken 

 with strong dark lines from the shoulders, crossed with 

 fine ones, and cloudy patches a shade or two darker run 

 across ; top of head, shoulders, and down the back, a light 

 ashy brown, touched with darker, upon an amber bottom, 

 showing a line of lighter along each side, and around the 

 lower edge of each joint ; a slanting dark line crosses each 

 joint along the sides ; breast and belly, a light shade of 

 brown of an ambry tinge ; legs and whisks, a light ambry 

 brown dim transparency. 



Wings, a feather from under the wing of the hen pheasant; 

 body, yellow silk, with a few fibres of light fur from a hare's 

 ear, wrought in at the breast. 



The brown drake commences hatching the latter end of 



(11) In speaking about the " March Brown," it is always well to first ascertain 

 which fly is really meant, the " Brown Drake," as it is styled by the author, or pat- 

 tern No. 6 in this work, which, as I have previously stated in my notes on that fly, 

 is also called the " March Brown " in some districts ; Mr. Aldam distinguishes them 

 by calling the " Red Brown " the local " March Brown," and the " Brown Drake " 

 the " March Brown of Great Britain ; " Jackson names it the " Great Brown," and 

 some Yorkshire anglers the " Dun Drake," while in Wales it is called the " Cob 

 Fly ; " this fly is a great favourite with the fish when it is on the water, in fact, I 

 have seen fish killed with it until the end of June ; the female is a lighter fly, of a 

 more olive tinge than the male, and during its season I have generally found it 

 answer well to use one of each pattern at the same time. The following is Mr. 

 Ronalds' pattern for the female fly, which he has observed come upon the water a 

 few days later than the males. Body, pale olive green wool, ribbed with fine gold 

 twist ; legs, a honey dun hackle, that is less bright than a golden dun ; wings, 

 upright from the quill feather out of the middle of a hen pheasant's wing. 



