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bittern hackle, or a yellow brown freckled hen ; body, 

 yellow or pale amber silk, with open rounds of deep 

 red brown ; shoulders, tinged with water-rat or squir- 

 rel's ashy fur. 



57iH. SPOTTED SPINNER. Length, half an inch ; 

 wings, half an inch, of a light transparent ground, 

 beautifully spotted with rich dark brown, and reddish 

 towards the shoulders, which, with the body, are of an 

 ashy leady hue : with green and various reflections ; 

 some are a fine light blue or azure, darkest on the edge 

 of each joint ; thighs, a red dim transparency, dark- 

 ening to the feet. Appear the middle of this month, 

 and continue through June. 



58TH. LITTLE SPOTTED SPINNER. Full length, 

 three-eighths; length, a quarter and a sixteenth; wings, 

 the same color as the spotted spinner ; clear, marked, 

 and spotted with dark brown ; body and shoulders, 

 darkish brown, with gilded reflections in the sun ; legs, 

 a light brown , dim transparency. Is out in the after- 

 noon and evenings, from the middle of this month 

 through June. 



Rankly freckled feather, of neutral ground, may be 

 selected from the wild mallard or teal, for the wings 

 of these two flies, which are nearly similar in colors ; 

 body, dull yellow or fawn colored silk, tinged with fine 

 blue fur ; red hackle for legs. 



59TH. BLACK DRAKE. Length, various, from 

 one-eighth and one-sixteenth to three-eighths. Is the 

 darkest of the drake tribes, altogether of a leady black 

 hue. Commence hatching the middle of this month ; 



