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kills best when dressed buzz or hacklewise. The body 

 should be formed with floss silk of two shades, the 

 ground-work being white, with a bright crimson band 

 near the head and tail. It may also be tied with crimson 

 silk, so as to form a head of that color. The hackle 

 may be a white hen's, or a small white feather from the 

 knob of a pigeon's wing. 



The first three shades of spinners are the transforma- 

 tion of the Olive Dun Order. The last given is the 

 metamorphosis of the iron blue. 



For the large browns (ephemeral) the following are 

 given : 



FOR MARCH AND APRIL (March Brown). Body, fur 

 from the back of a hare's neck, spun on reddish buff- 

 colored silk, ribbed with fine gold twist; tails, two 

 strands of a feather from the back of a partridge; legs, 

 a partridge's neck feather. . 



FOR MAY AND JUNE (Light shade, commonly known 

 as the Turkey brown). Body, light drab fur, ribbed 

 with gold twist; wings, light partridge quill; legs, grisly 

 dyin. 



FOR AUGUST (Commonly termed August Dun). 

 Body, to be tied on, or dressed with ale brown silk, 

 ribbed with yellow silk; wings, from a cock pheasant's 

 wing feather; legs, a pale dull brown cock's hackle. 



We now come to the May-fly, or Drake the Ephemeral 

 series. The green drake, like all the smaller flies, re- 

 quires copying accurately, in respect to the most minute 

 detail. As we elsewhere pointed out, there exists no 

 greater diversity amongst the imitations of any particular 

 fly, than is the case with. this. That it is an extremely 

 difficult one to dress, we readily admit, and that it is 

 quite possible to copy effectually is also readily conceded. 

 But to suppose that much more than one-third the im- 

 mense varieties of patterns manufactured can be success- 



