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viously described, but it is of a darker and more ruddy 

 brown than the sand-fly ; it is more plentiful in the 

 autumn than at any other time of the year. Its name 

 has orginated from the fact of there being a faint odor of 

 cinnamon emitted by it when handled. It is invaluable 

 for live-fly fishing, but it is seldom "up" in sufficient 

 strength on open water, to make it equally valuable for 

 casting. Being excessively heavy in its nights, its mo- 

 tions and flutterings are very awkward. In July and 

 August it frequents the surface of the water under shelv- 

 ing banks and sheltered places, and is then styled the 

 bank fly. In common with the Spring Browns it is con- 

 siderably smaller in size during the hot months ; but is 

 more numerous on cold days. 



The Green-tail,* or Grannum, completes this order of 

 flies. It appears at first sight like a freckled sand-fly, but 

 upon a more minute inspection, is found to differ con- 

 siderably in several points. The body has a strange ap- 

 pendage of a conspicuous green color at its extremity. 

 This is its egg-pouch, and it is observed to drop its egg, 

 like the spinners of the ephemeral order, as it rises and 

 falls upon the top of the water. 



The PerlidcB order ranks next to the above. The most 

 useful we have given as being the stone, willow, and 

 needle flies, also the yellow Sally. The first-named is a 

 very large fly, and in some localities is termed the May 

 flv, as it annually makes its first appearance in that month. 

 There is, however, the same distinctive difference be- 

 tween this and the May fly, or Green Drake, that we have 

 already described in the February Eed and the March 

 Brown, with this exception, that the wings of the Stone 

 fly are double the length of those of the Eed fly, and lie 

 still more horizontally,, being almost flat upon the back 



* This fly is made by our tackle dealers, but, so far as I know, is 

 not in general use. 



