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the end of May, and continues for two months. 

 It is a good fly at all hours of the day, if the 

 water be not very low. 



No. 23. The Little Yellow May or Willow Fly 

 resembles the green drake in form, and is com- 

 posed of nearly the same materials, but on a 

 much smaller scale. The body of yellow fur 

 from the martin's neck ; or yellow worsted un- 

 ravelled, and mixed with a very small quantity of 

 the fur from the hare's ear, so arranged that the 

 yellow shall predominate as the colour of the 

 belly ; wings of the mallard's feather, dyed yel- 

 low ; or it may be made as a hackle fly, with a 

 white cock's feather, dyed of the same shade of 

 yellow. This fly comes on early in May, and is 

 the precursor of the green drake ; until the ap- 

 pearance of which it may be used with success. 



No. 24, a little brown fly which appears in 

 June, and continues until September, is a good 

 fly before sunset in a warm evening. The body 

 of dark brown fur, ribbed with orange silk ; and 

 a hackle, of a greenish tinge, from the back of a 

 woodpecker or dusky green parrot. 



