78 LIST OF FLIES. 



black. Out all day to near the end of the season. 



Body, black silk ; wings and legs, a neck feather 

 from the cock -pheasant or starling. 



NOTE. The empress declines, and the needle yellow 

 and orange brown, are all that remain of her kindred. 

 The needle and yellows are hatching and on the water 

 daily, in great numbers ; the orange are not so numer- 

 ous, but is rarely refused by the trout. All the various 

 sized drakes for small flyfishing 'the check wing, and 

 wings of all shades, from the pale blue dun of the tern 

 to the dark plum hue of the water-hen and coot -are 

 hatching and taken by the fishes, in the day time and 

 again in the evening, in their second dresses. The 

 little freckled duns are hatching very numerous, and 

 the spinner tribes, in great numbers and varieties 

 The spinner and black and yellow spinner, may be 

 fished natural, for the fish are in the midst of living 

 food ; and the trout, like the lion, " feeds on nothing 

 that doth seem as dead." Flights of ants and the pismire 

 tribes, are common this month. The beetle and house 

 fly tribes have their turns with the fish. The wily 

 craftsman strives to fall in with the favorite, when he 

 marks the fish rising, and notes each flitting fly ; for 

 the flies and the fish must lead him the way. At this 

 high temperature of the air the aquatic flies are 

 strong at hatching, and on seasonable days soon out 

 of the reach of the fish. The red drakes and the duns 

 come out numerous, for evening and twilight fishing. 

 The bustard enters the month in full force, and may 

 be fished so long as she continues. In the early part 

 of the season, when flies are few, fish rise freely and 



