38 LIST OF FLIES. 



37TH. DARK AMBER DRAKE. Length three-eighths; 

 wings rather more, which are clear and glassy, with deep 

 orange reflections ; body, rich orange bottom, marked dis- 

 tinct, with a good portion of rich dark brown on each joint ; 

 legs, amber. 



Deep orange hackle for wings and legs ; and orange or 

 yellow silk for body, more or less waxed. 



38TH. SANDED DuN. 23 Full length, half an inch or 

 more ; length, three-eighths ; wings, three-eighths and one- 

 sixteenth, the top ones, when closed, appear of a uniform 

 palish sandy-red brown. The dark eyes form the only con- 

 trast, but on looking closely the wings are beautifully broken 

 with faint freckles, and staddles of lighter on the top edges 

 behind the shoulders, which are more conspicuous in some 

 than in others. Body and legs a light red-brown dim trans- 

 parency; belly, a bees'-wax dull yellow hue. They com- 

 mence hatching this month, and may be seen in the day 

 time until October ; but the great muster of the duns is 

 from five to seven in the afternoons, and dusk in the even- 

 ings. In the course of the season varieties, slightly differ- 

 ing, present themselves the bodies and thighs of some 

 have the purple blush, and shew clear the light side lines ; 

 others have more or less down, or are of lighter or darker 

 shade, but when held to the light, are all from the light 

 colored or codbait tribe of creepers. 



Bright copper colored silk for body ; feathers, for wings 

 and legs, from the landrail, throstle, or a yellow bronze brown 

 hen, or the brown owl, with or without tinge of water-rat. 



(23) This fly must not be confounded with No. 5 in this work, which is called in 

 some districts the " Sand Fly," the title which is adopted by all other writers for the 

 " Sanded Dun." I have generally found it kill best in the evening towards the end 

 of August or beginning of September, but am inclined to think that it is then taken 

 as an imitation of the " Cinnamon Fly," which it much resembles, and which belongs 

 to the same family, the " Phryganidae ; " for the Yore, the author's pattern answers 

 very well, but curiously enough does not take at all well on the Wharf e, where a fly 

 dressed hacklewise from a thrush's feather, with yellow silk for the body, does great 

 execution among grayling during the autumn months. 



