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body, shoulders, and head ; fastened at the head with orange 

 or yellow silk ; hackled with a cock pheasant's purple neck 

 feather, for wings and legs. 



The fly from the clapbait is exactly of the same shape as 

 the blue bottle, but larger, and near the same color, except 

 the wings, which are orange at the shoulders, and the 

 cheeks brilliantly gilded. 



22ND. G-RANNAM 15 (or greentail). Full length, about 

 half an inch ; length, a quarter and one-sixteenth, which 

 appears longer when the female has her cluster of green 

 eggs about the end. Wings, three-eighths and one six- 

 teenth ; top ones downy, of a light rusty brown tinge and 

 transparency, with faint freckles of darker shade. Head, 

 shoulders, body, legs, and feelers, coppery brown, with a 

 blue tinge on the back and belly ; eyes, dark. Commences 

 hatching last month and continues into May. She is one 

 of the cod bait or light colored tribe of duns, and shews 

 herself more in daylight than some others of her class ; 

 hatching in the forenoons, and sporting in small groups 

 over the waters in the afternoon and towards evening. 

 Several species of the duns, the dotterell, black dun, etc., 

 come out and sport over the waters from five to near sun- 

 set, when other species make their appearance. 



Winged with slips from a feather out of a partridge or 

 hen pheasant's wing ; body, coppery silk, tinged with water- 

 rat's blue fur ; with a few fibres of mohair to imitate the 

 legs ; or winged and legged with a landrail, or slightly 

 freckled feather from a light red brown hen. 



(15) This fly appears in April, but has been noticed by Mr. Francis on the 

 water as late as July, and Mr. Ronalds states that he has taken them from the 

 stomach of a trout even in August. I once myself saw a dish of ten fine trout taken 

 from the river Wharfe by this fly in July, but from personal experience I cannot say 

 very much in favour of it, having only caught a few odd fish now and then with its 

 imitation. It is not met with on every stream, and even on the rivers where it is 

 found it appears in a very erratic manner some seasons the water being covered 

 with them for a week or ten days, and perhaps the next year only two or three flies 

 are to be seen. Jackson remarks that the fish take it as early as six o'clock, a.m. 

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