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cock or hen-pheasant ; with fawn or amber colored silk 

 or Alpaca woollen thread, for body, etc., tinged with 

 blue-dun fur; and legged with a black red hackle. 



62ND. GREEN DRAKE. Length, various, from 

 three-quarters to seven-eighths, may be the medium ; 

 wings, nearly the same, which are of a light grass 

 green ground, and dim transparency ; veined and 

 crossed with darker lines ; two or three small blotches 

 near the middle. Head and shoulders, a light grass 

 green hue, with touches of darker at the sides ; and a 

 dark blotch on the back and on the sides of each joint 

 of the body, darkest on the three last joints ; legs and 

 whisks, a dim light green tinge and transparency. 



Hackled, for legs and wings, with a light colored 

 mottled feather from the wild mallard, that is stained 

 the ground color of the wings of the fly ; body, pale 

 yellow-green smooth woollen thread, warpt with eight 

 or nine open rounds of darker shade. 



The green drake is the superior fly of the drake 

 tribes. All the genus are bred in the water first an 

 egg, then a creeper: the green drake remains in it 

 above ten months. About the twenty-fourth of this 

 month the forward creepers are matured ; and from ten 

 o' clock 'till four, on fine days, rise to the surface, 

 when the struggling fly splits open the creeper case at 

 the shoulders, and draws out its body, wings, whisks, 

 and legs, as it floats on the current. When all the 

 parts are at liberty, up springs on the wing the new 

 hatched fly, like a water nymph in fairy green leav- 

 ing the empty creeper skin on the water, an exhausted 

 senseless slough. In this way, while the sun's beams 



