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some gogling and some cased ; as the season advances 

 they shew distinctly the slanting dark lines along the 

 sides, similar to the brown drake. 



Body, orange or yellow silk ; hackled, for wings and 

 legs, with a freckled-brown feather from the back or 

 shoulder of a partridge ; with a few fibres of hare's 

 ear wrought in at the breast. 



The checkwing varies from this description, as will 

 be seen afterwards, for she continues into October ; in 

 the warm months she nearly equals in size the March 

 brown, and is as fine and bulky a fly. The principal 

 distinction is the clouded wing of the March brown, 

 which the pheasant's feather has long represented, 

 and the partridge brown for the trellaced wings of 

 the checkwing. For time out of mind they have 

 been great favorites with the craft yclept " hare's ear 

 and yellow." 



30TH. RED DRAKE (or great red spinner). Size 

 of checkwing but smarter; long fore-legs, long whisks; 

 wings, glassy and transparent, crossed into squares, 

 sparkling with red reflections ; body, a red or ambry 

 dim transparency, tinged darker on the upper parts 

 and along the sides. Legs and whisks, a red dim 

 transparency ; eyes, round and gogling or cased. Are 

 out in groups in the evenings. 



Red cock's hackle with orange silk. 



31 ST. BLACK SPINNER (or gnat). Full length, 

 short of a quarter ; length, one-eight to one-eight and 

 one-sixteenth ; round thick shoulders ; body, tapering 

 to a point, of a dark brown leady or black color. 



