22 LIST OF FLIES. 



fly. They fly much about and are often blown, or fall 

 casually, on the waters, when their rich colors, reflec- 

 tions, and size, are natural and attractive to fish. They 

 are most conspicuous this month and next, and from 

 September to the end. 



15TH. THE BROWN DRAKE (March brown). Length 

 near or about half an inch ; wings, half an inch to five- 

 eights, which are of a dim light brown, ground broken 

 with strong dark lines from the shoulders, crossed with 

 fine ones, and cloudy patches a shade or two darker 

 run across ; top of head, shoulders, and down the back, 

 a light ashy brown, touched with darker upon an 

 amber bottom, showing a line of lighter along each 

 side, and around the lower edge of each joint ; a slant- 

 ing dark line crosses each joint along the sides ; breast, 

 and belly, a light shade of brown of an ambry tinge ; 

 legs and whisks, a light ambry brown and dim trans- 

 parency. 



Wings, a feather from under the wing of the hen 

 pheasant ; body, yellow silk, with a few fibres of light 

 fur from a hare's ear, wrought in at the breast. 



The brown drake commences hatching the latter-end 

 of this month, if the weather be very favorable. She 

 is a favorite leader with the craft through the spring ; 

 next in size and importance to the head of her class, 

 the fairy queen or green drake, to whom she resigns 

 her supremacy ; she casts the brown badge and becomes 

 the brilliant amber drake, or the largest of the red 

 drakes, erroneously called spinners. 



16iH. AMBER DRAKE. Size of the brown drake; 



