MARCH. 17 



Trout rise voracious in the wild March day, 

 And hungry homer in the snow storms prey ; 

 Smelt sports in his prime, his second winter past ; 

 Flies follow flies in thick succession fast ; 

 Nature revives ; animation crowds the land ; 

 And the sport lengthens as the days expand. 



VTH. THE EARLY DUN. Full length from three- 

 eights to half an inch ; length, one-fourth and one-six- 

 teenth ; feelers, three-eights ; the closed wings are 

 brown, of the cinnamon cast, which, with the head, 

 are laid aad fringed with a fine down, which glistens in 

 the sun with coppery and gilded reflections ; there are 

 some with lighter marks or staddles, on the top parts of 

 the wings, and light spots round the end. The body 

 is a copper bottom, tinged on the back and belly with 

 light purple or blue dun, leaving a line of lighter on 

 each side, which is characteristic of most of the duns ; 

 legs, a light reddish brown, dim transparency. They 

 hatch the beginning of this month ; and are out in the 

 afternoon and evenings of warm days their eggs are 

 a cream color. 



Winged with slips from a feather from an old bronzed 

 brown hen, or selected from the brown owl ; legged with 

 a few fibres of gingery squirrel's fur or mohair; body, 

 copper colored, silk tinged with water-rat's blue fur. 



STH. BLUE DRAKE (blue dun). Length, near 

 three-eights ; wings, three-eights ; whisks, a quarter 

 to half an inch, with two small short feelers ; top of 

 head, shoulders, and down the back, a bluish ashy hue, 

 of lighter or darker shade, upon an orange bottom ; 

 rather lighter along the sides ; along the breast and 



