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whisks, and is turned up towards the back; from 

 the green stripes on its body, it is sometimes called 

 the Green Drake. The naturalist may be highly 

 gratified during a fine warm day, in the end of May, 

 by observing the manner in which this singular 

 insect breaks through and flies from the case in 

 which it has been enveloped while in the state of a 

 maggot. The wings are formed artificially of the 

 light feather of a grey drake, or wild mallard, dyed 

 yellow ;* the body of yellow ram's wool, seals fur, or 

 amber-coloured mahair, mixed with a little fox-down, 

 or hog's wool, ribbed with pale yellow and green 

 silk, or the feather of a heron or bittern, to imitate 

 the legs and joints of the fly's body; the head of 

 peacock's harl, and the tail of three long hairs from 

 a sable muff", or the whiskers of a black cat ; the 

 hook No. 6. The body may also be made thus, and 

 it has a more natural appearance than the preceding ; 

 in the first place, fasten near the bend of the hook a 

 small thin piece of white Indian rubber, then wnrp 



* The following are the most approved Receipts for staining 

 feathers yellow ; . . . . Scrape a small quantity of the bark of 

 the barberry tree, or bruise in a mortar the root, add to it a 

 lump of alum, and two or three dozen grey feathers of a 

 mallard ; boil them in a pint of rain water, in an earthen 

 pitcher, about an hour, and you will find them the colour you 

 wish. Or, 



Gamboge dissolved in spirits of wine, will impart a fine 

 yellow to the feathers, if they be first boiled in strong alum 

 water. 



