50 LIST OF FLIES. 



yellow or fawn colored silk, tinged with fine blue fur ; red 

 hackle for legs. 



59TH. BLACK DRAKE. Length various, from one-eighth 

 and one-sixteenth to three-eighths. Is the darkest of the 

 drake tribes, altogether of a leady black hue. Commences 

 hatching the middle of this month ; and continues through 

 June and July. They cast their skins and become the 

 black red drake. 



Hackled, for legs and wings, with a dark leady feather 

 from the coot or water-hen ; body, red or crimson silk. 



60TH. BLACK-RED DRAKE. Near the same size as the 

 black drake, but smarter. Head, top of shoulders, and 

 body, a deep red or black brown, shewing orange or yellow 

 at the joints, sides of shoulders, and setting on of the legs. 

 Belly a dim amber ; legs and whisks a dim ale transparency ; 

 eyes large and dark. The drawing was from one taken off 

 a spider's web ; the wings tied to the tail by the spider's 

 threads. 



Black red cock's hackle, or purple feather from the cock- 

 pheasant's neck, for wings and legs ; orange silk for body. 



61ST. GREY SPINNER (see spinner class). Length, one 

 inch more or less ; wings the same, which are of a brown 

 transparency, with patches of lighter shade, branched and 

 crossed with dark veins. Shoulders, thighs, and breast, 

 shades of ash, with dark marks ; body a greenish ash, with 

 dark touches along each side ; when held to the light the 

 middle joints shew a dim transparency; thighs, lighter, 

 darkening down the legs. Is the largest of the spinner 

 class, not numerous, but may be sometimes seen on the 

 banks of the streams, from the beginning of this month into 

 July. They are not imitated for small flyfishing the hind 

 legs of some measure three inches. 



