MARCH. 23 



this month, if the weather be very favorable. She is a 

 favorite leader with the craft through the spring ; next in 

 size and importance to the head of her class, the fairy queen 

 or green drake, to whom she resigns her supremacy ; she 

 casts the brown badge and becomes the brilliant amber 

 drake, or the largest of the red drakes, erroneously called 

 spinners. 



16TH. AMBER DRAKES Size of the brown drake; 

 wings clear and sparkling, with red and amber tinges and 

 reflections ; body, a rich orange or amber color ; the dark 

 marks and slanting dark lines on the sides, distinct and 

 clear, of a dark red brown color ; legs and whisks a dim 

 amber transparency ; eyes dark. Is the most splendid in 

 colors of any of the drakes, and may sometimes be seen 

 almost as large as the grey drake. 



Body, bright orange or yellow silk, with eight or nine 

 open rounds of dark red brown wound upon it; winged 

 and legged with a red or amber cock's hackle, with a few 

 fibres of amber mohair wrought in at the breast. 



17TH. LIGHT BROWN. Full length, near or about five- 

 eighths, or about the same as the dark brown, which the 

 craft distinguish by "inside and outside of woodcock ;" top 

 of head and shoulders, dark and shiny; body and breast 

 darkest brown, which becomes more orange ; thighs and 

 legs a dull ale transparency, dark at the joints ; the closed 

 wings appear of a light brown ground, broken with veins ; 

 and four fleecy stripes across, of a darker shade. When 

 looked through are of a light bloaish brown dim trans- 

 parency. Commences hatching this month and continues 

 into summer. 



(12) " Great Eed Spinner " of Ronalds and Francis ; " Great Spinner " of Jack- 

 son ; this imago of the "Brown Drake" in common with that of the " Blue and 

 Yellow Duns," is an excellent evening fly during its season especially after slight 

 showers. This fly is also known as the "Light Mackerel" on some rivers. 



