MAY. 45 



oriel's feather ; body, yellow silk ; with a few fibres of 

 yellow mohair, or hair from the hare's ear, for legs. 



45TH. LITTLE FRECKLED DUN. Full length, 

 about three -eighths; length, rather less ; wings, one 

 quarter and one-sixteenth, which, when closed, are of 

 a dark brown ground, rankly spotted or freckled over 

 with dull yellow or buff color ; with gilded reflections 

 in the sun ; under wings, a snipe bio hue, fringed at 

 the edges ; top ones, when looked through, a blue-dun 

 tinge ; shoulders, body, feelers, thighs, and legs, cop- 

 pery, with its blue tarnish of lighter or darker shade. 



They are very like the freckled dun, but much 

 smaller. Commence hatching with the month, and are 

 out numerous most part of the day and in the even- 

 ings, through summer. 



Wings, a rankly freckled feather from the snipe or 

 judcock ; tinged and legged with blue-dun fur. 



46TH. LEAST DUN. Full length, about one-eighth 

 of an inch. Top wings downy, fringed and freckled 

 like the goat-sucker, and glistening in the sun with 

 coppery and gilded reflections ; legs and body, a dark 

 cloudy dun, which grows more coppery as the season 

 advances ; under wings plain and fringed, of a uniform 

 blue -bio tinge. 



They are the least of the dun tribes, and like others 

 of its size, scarce worth the angler's notice. They 

 commence hatching with the month, and continue in- 

 creasing through most of the season. In September 

 they are out most of the day, and are exceedingly nu- 

 merous and brisk in the evenings ; they run very quick, 



