MAY. 61 



Slips, for wings, from a brown hen or brown owl ; 

 legged with mohair or hen hackle ; or hackled, for 

 wings and legs, with the same ; bodyv coppery silk, 

 tinged with water-rat's blue fur. 



69TH. SAILOR BEETLE. Length, various, from a 

 quarter to three-eighths, or better. Color, altogether 

 red or amber, of lighter or darker shades except the 

 ends of the top wings, which are tipped with black; 

 with a dark or black line on the upper edges ; and 

 are of amber transparency. Eyes, black ; under- wings, 

 a bio brown transparency, veined and clouded, with 

 lighter and darker resembles, the soldier beetle ex- 

 cept the dark or black line on the top edge of each 

 wing. Are numerous among the grass, until July. 



Wings, amber feather, tipped with black, from the 

 cock-pheasant's breast ; body, orange silk ; with a few 

 fibres of orange mohair at the breast, for legs. 



NOTE. Numerous swarms of different flies now 

 meet their arch enemy, the swift, that, like a winged 

 dart, cleaves their devoted ranks. The angler's list 

 shrinks, when compared with the vast varieties. House 

 flies, spinners, beetles, etc., increase and expand their 

 species far beyond the ken of the flyfisher -whose skill 

 is often foiled, when the fishes are rising around him 

 at some fly or insect known to themselves only. Many 

 of the choicest species of the three aquatic tribes the 

 brown drakes and duns are this month in their greatest 

 numbers and virgin freshness ; while trout are exceed- 

 ingly bold and their appetites keen. The needle, Royal 

 Charlie ; light, mottled, and bio browns ; the blue, 



