FEBRUARY. 15 



the body ; they are then of a brown tinge and transpa 

 rency, with dark veins ; head, shoulders, and body, a 

 dark leady color ; a glass shews a few fine short hairs 

 or down on the body, which reflects in the sun copper 

 or gild ; legs, a dark brown dim transparency the 

 hind ones five-eights in length. They are out from 

 morning until near night ; and are excellent flies du- 

 ring their existence, which may be until near the end 

 of spring. 



They are usually hackled with a feather out of the 

 woodcock's wing, lead colored silk, and legged with a 

 black red hackle or coppery silk, tinged with water 

 rat and a few fibres of red brown mohair, but must 

 be made smart and fine. 



GTH. THE RED BROWN. Full length from half 

 an inch and one-sixteenth to five-eights ; length, better 

 than three-eights : feelers, three-eights to half an inch ; 

 wings near half an inch, which are of a light red brown 

 ground broken with veins of darker, and three faint 

 fleecy patches of darker shade, which run across, the 

 most distinct in the middle. As the summer advances 

 they grow lighter in shade ; the under side of the fold- 

 ed wings, of some, appear as light as the outer skin of 

 a dried onion ; when looked through singly to the 

 light, the red brown tinge is faint, and all the fly ap- 

 pears of a light red or amber, dim transparency, bright- 

 ening with light; head, shoulders, and body, a light 

 red brown, with touches of darker shade ; legs and 

 thighs a dim, pale-ale transparency ; the males are less, 

 and their colors rather darker. They commence hatch- 

 ing about the middle of this month ; when they are 



