132 THE SCIENTIFIC ANGLER. 



The Iron- Blue Dun Family or Order may be dressed 

 as under: 



FOR APRIL AND MAY, also SEPTEMBER AND OCTO- 

 BER (Iron Blue Dun). Body, blue fur from the owl, 

 spun around mulberry -colored silk; wings, from the male 

 merlin hawk's wing; legs, a freckled blue dun hackle, 

 stained slightly by brown dye. Tying silk, mauve. For 

 the light shade, the body should be dressed with a strip 

 of a quill feather, stained the desired hue, or the tying 

 silk only may serve for the purpose. 



AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER (Little Pale Blue). Body, 

 a small portion of pale blue fur, mixed with a little yel- 

 low mohair, spun upon pale yellow or primrose-colored 

 silk; wings, from the quill feather, or from the small 

 feathers upon the knob of the wings of the sea-swallow 

 a pair of the latter to be used back-to-back; legs, a pale 

 dull hackle. 



OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER (October Dun). To be 

 dressed from same material as the shades of the Olive 

 Duns for April. The size the same as the Iron Blue, and 

 therefore one-half that of the olive order. 



GENERAL FLIES (Red Spinner). Body, copper-col- 

 ored silk, ribbed with round gold thread; whisks, three 

 strands from a red feather from the back saddle of a 

 game cock; legs, fiery brown hackle, from the neck of 

 the same bird; wings, from an old starling's end quill. 



Dark ditto same as the above, but the floss silk for 

 body, and the hackle for legs, should be a shade or two 

 darker, the latter approaching a claret. 



Golden ditto. Body, gold-colored silk, to be ribbed 

 the same as the red spinner; legs, sandy hen's hackle; 

 wings, fieldfare quill. 



Jenny Spinner. This is, perhaps, the most delicate 

 fly to copy correctly of the whole species of aerial and 

 aquatic insects that become food for fish. We find it 



