36 LIST OP FLIES. 



Some shew faint reflections in the sun. Wings, trans- 

 parent, of a slight brown or neutral tinge. 



Black silk and starling's small feather. This little 

 aquatic comes out of the water the beginning of this 

 month, and increases daily to immense numbers ; it is 

 often the leading favorite of the fish, and as often the 

 pest of the flyfisher. They are out all day, mustering 

 exceedingly numerous in the evenings until dusk, and 

 continue through summer. They wing and wheel over 

 the whole face of the water in dry and warm times, 

 rousing the fish ; when the best imitation cannot 

 work. Like the small midge and gnat tribes, they 

 may trifle away time, but do little for the pannier. 



32ND. BLO BROWN. Full length, near or about 

 half an inch ; length, three-eights ; wings, three-eights, 

 which, when folded, are of a light grizzly blue tinge, 

 and when looked through are glassy and colorless, with 

 small veins, and a dark patch or blot on the outer edge. 

 Head, shoulders, and body, a brown orange tinge ; legs, 

 a brown amber dim transparency. Is about the sub- 

 stance of the early brown, and commences hatching 

 early this month. 



Snipe bio feather from under the wing ; yellow or 

 orange silk, with a few fibres of ambry-brown mohair 

 at the breast. 



33RD. LITTLE DARK DRAKE. Length, about a 

 quarter ; wings, a quarter or better, altogether of the 

 hue of the water-hen's breast. When held up to the 

 light the middle joints of the body shew lighter, like 

 the iron blue, but the iron blues are a blue grey, and 



