DESCRIPTION OF FLIES. 29 



weather is warm (though I have killed best with it in May) 

 and continues to the end of May. It is of longer dura- 

 tion, but not of much service to the angler after that time. 

 It is easily distinguished from the other flies by the length 

 of its legs which hang below the body as it flies. The 

 body is made with black ostrich harl and black silk, and 

 two or three strands from a black cock's tail feather tied 

 under the wings for legs, which should come below the 

 bend of the hook ; the wings are made from the wing feather 

 of a starling hook No. 2. 



THE SMALL HAWTHORN FLY 



Comes on the beginning of May and continues to the end 

 of the month. The wings of this fly are made from a quill 

 feather of the dottril's wing, or the lightest part of a starl- 

 ing's wing-feather, warpt with black silk and black horse- 

 hair or black ostrich harl, but the horse-hair comes nearest 

 to the body of the fly, with a black cock's hackle under 

 the wings for legs hook No. 1. This fly js an excellent 

 killer in warm days. 



COW DUNG FLY. 



Towards the latter end of April and through May ; the 

 wings are made with a feather from the back of a dottril of 

 a dun brown colour, with yellow edges, body warped with 

 yellow silk hook No. 2. This fly is an excellent killer 

 to the end of May ; in June and July it changes its co- 

 lour to a kind of dirty orange it may then be made with 

 a landrail's feather for wings, warped with orange silk, 

 dubbed with orange and a little light brown worsted ; but 



