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bosom the tender summer bred fly, pours out its 

 motley stores. Swallows flock on the house top, med- 

 itating their long flight ; and the Martins mingle at 

 even in the willows, their sonorous departing song. 



SEPTEMBER FOURTH. 



Orange brown, needle broivn, dark drake, light drake, 

 (length, a quarter}, iron blue drake, little dark drake, 

 f quarter or better}, checkwing-, coral eyed drake. All 

 out and hatching in the day time. Numbers may be 

 seen, in fine weather, in spider webs. The drakes cast 

 their skins, and are most numerous about the waters 

 a little before and after sunset. Th'e checkwing is the 

 finest ; and the red drake nearly equal to the amber. 



Blue drake. Some near the size of the spring flies, 

 but of browner shades, hatching in good numbers ; one 

 cast its skin and became the orange drake. Took 

 one off a spider web length, near three-eighths; 

 wings, three-eighths and a sixteenth ; crossed into 

 squares with fine lines ; which alone made them visible ; 

 eyes like two light pearl pellets. Top of shoulders, 

 red ; lighter down the back, and growing lighter to the 

 belly ; legs, a pale dim amber ; whisks an inch, and 

 spotted. (Suppose the pearl colored eyes not natural.) 



Little brown dun. Wheeling over the water in small 

 groups, at*six p.m. 



F&ted dun. Saw one similar, out in the day time. 



Light dun. Full length, half an inch and a sixteenth; 



