28 LIST OF FLIES. 



rail, or slightly freckled feather from a light red brown 

 hen. 



23KD. THE SPINNER. Length, half an inch or 

 better, of which the body is three-eights ; wings, five- 

 eights, clear and tinged brown, with a scroll of dark 

 and light near the ends ; top of shoulders and body, 

 brown ; a round spot of lighter shade on the top of each 

 joint, running down the back, which is flanked on each 

 side by one of darker. Sides of shoulders and breast 

 mingled light and dark brown, lead, ash, and azure ; 

 thighs, a dim brown transparency, darkening down 

 the legs, which are very long. There is a smaller 

 species near the same colors : numerous on fogs and 

 grass, in September and October. 



Body, light brown or fawn colored silk, or even 

 woollen thread, tinged with a mixture of ash, blue, and 

 azure fur, at the shoulders, on a pale yellow bottom. 

 Wings from a feather out of a partridge or hen phea- 

 sant's wing ; legs, a black brown cock's hackle. 



The spinners are often numerous on the banks of 

 the streams at this part of the season : in the warm 

 months they are larger in size and more brilliant in 

 colors : when their length and wings is five-eights or 

 better ; and the hind legs of some two inches ; top of 

 shoulders and body, a brown ash or reflective fawn 

 color, in some lighter at the joints, others uniform ; the 

 sides of shoulders are a rich light blue and azure, 

 touched with ash, upon a pale yellow bottom which 

 shew, with the thighs, a rich dim transparency, of a 

 light amber shade, darkening down the legs. The 

 wings a fine rufous brown tinge and transparency, with 



