DESCRIPTIOX OF FLIES. 25 



wings, feather from a dun hen hook No. 1. This fly 

 takes very well in May and June. 



2. Body orange silk with two or three laps round 

 the tail of peacock's copper harl; wings, feather from a 

 young moor eock under the wing hook No. 1. 



3. Body pale brown silk ; wings, feather from the 

 but of a starling's wing of a pale sooty colour hook 

 No. 1. This fly kills well in May and August. 



4. Body black silk with black ostrich harl ^ound 

 round, and one lap of red wool under the wings, leaving 

 the ends to start out ; wings, a dark dun hen's feather 

 hook No. 2. This fly takes to the end of August. 



5* Body brown silk, with a strand of ostrich harl 

 wound two or three times ro und the tail ; wings, feather 

 from a sea swallow's-wing hook No. 1. This 6y, as well 

 as the red one, will kill well from the middle of June to 

 the end of September in warm gloomy days. 



6. Dubbing water rat fur, warped with lead co- 

 coloured silk ; wings, feather from the back of a young 

 cuckoo hook No. 1. 



WINGED FLIES. 



1 . Dubbing and silk the same as in the hackle fly ; 

 wings, feather from the wing of a starling, and a buff 

 hackle under the wing. 



2. Dubbing and silk the same as in the hackle fly ; 

 wings, feather from the wing of a starling, with a red 

 hackle under the wing. 



3. Silk, the same as in^the hackle fly, wings, (dark 

 feather from the wing of a starling, with a grizzled hackle 

 under the wings, 



