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sentations of caterpillars, produced in warm weather, and very rarely 

 found in this climate of ours in April. Cotton gives a list of eight nies 

 for February. I do not like any one of them. I will give four patterns 

 for this month, confident of their attractiveness. 



Xo. 1. Wings, a light brown, mottled feather of the mallard, found 

 under its wing ; body, a mixture of red squirrel's fur and claret mohair,, 

 warped up the hoop to the wings with fiery brown silk ; legs, a hackle- 

 dyed claret. Hooks, 8, 9, 10. 



No. 2. Wings, standing upright, of a starling's wing-feather ; tail, two 

 fibres of the mottled mallard's feather ; body, dark olive mohair, tipped 

 with silver tinsel. Hooks, 9 and 10. A good fly on a bright day. 



No. 3. Wings, reddest feather of the woodcock's wing; body, dark fur 

 of the hare's ear, to be picked out at the shoulder ; gold tip, and tail, two 

 fibres of the mallard feather. Hooks, same size as those of No. 2. 



No. 4. Wings and legs, brown mottled partridge back-feather ; body, 

 a mixture of orange mohair, and dark and light hare's ear fur. Hooks, 

 10 and 11. ED.] 



MARCH. 



For this month you are to use all the same hackles and files 

 with the other ; but you are to make them less. 



1. We have, besides, for this month, a little dun, called a 

 whirling dun (though it is not the whirling dun, indeed, 

 which is one of the best flies we have) ; and for this the dub- 

 bing must be of the bottom fur of a squirrel's tail ; and the 

 wing, of the grey feather of a drake. 



2. Also a bright brown ; the dubbing either of the brown, 

 of a spaniel, or that of a red cow's flank, with a grey wing. 



3. Also a whitish dun ; made of the roots of camel's hair ; 

 and the wings, of the grey feather of a mallard. 



4. There is also for this month a fly called the thorn-tree 

 fly ; the dubbing an absolute black, mixed with eight or ten 

 hairs of Isabella-coloured mohair ; the body as little as can 

 be made ; of a bright mallard's feather. An admirable fly, 

 and in great repute amongst us for a killer. 



5. There is, besides this, another BLUE Dux, the dubbing 

 of which it is made being thus to be got. Take a small-tooth 

 comb, and with it comb the neck of a black greyhound, and 

 the down that sticks in the teeth will be the finest blue that 

 ever you saw. The wings of this fly can hardly be too white, 

 and he is taken about the tenth of this month, and iasteth 

 till the four-and- twentieth. 



G. From the tenth of this month also, till towards the end, 

 is taken a little BLACK GNAT ; the dubbing either of the fur 

 of a black water-dog, or the down of a young black water- 



