PALMERS. 11? 



APRIL, 

 PALMERS. 



1. Th* Dark Brown. 



2. Tht, Violet 'Y/y. 



3. The Little Whirling 



Dun. 



4. The Yellow Dun. 



5. The Horse-flesh Fly* 



6. The Small Bright 



Brozvn. 



1. Dabbed on a small hook, No 8 or 9, with 

 brown seal's fur, or with brown spaniel's fur, that 

 looks ruddy, by being exposed to the weather, 

 mixed with a little violet camlet ; warp with yel- 

 low silk, and the wings off a grey feather of a 

 .mallard. Kills lest from eight to eleven. 



2. Dubbed with dark violet stuff, and a little 

 dun bear's hair mixed with it ; the wings off the 

 grey feather of a mall.ird. 



Kills tiery well from the sixth, to the tenth of this 

 month. ^ 



3. Dubbed with fox-cub down, asn-coloured 

 at the roots, next the skin ; ribbed about with 

 yellow silk, the wings of a pale grey feather of a 

 mallard. Or, dubbed with the same down, and 

 a little ruddy brown mixed, warped with grey, or 

 ruddy silk, a red hackle under the wings, which 

 must be made from the feather of a land rail, or 

 ruddy brown chicken, which is better. 



This fly comes on the water the twelfth of this 

 month, and is taken in the middle of thz day, and 

 ail the month through, and in blustering weather 

 to the end of J une. 



4. Dubbed with camel's hair, and marten's yel- 

 low fur, mixed together; or with a small quantity 

 of pale yellow cruel, mixed with fox- cub do*vn 

 from the tail, warped with yellow silk $ aud the 

 wings of a pale starling's feather. 



