ADDENDA. 



The preceding list presents a number of flies, which 

 fall by chance or come naturally on the water, and 

 often several species present themselves to the choice 

 of the fish at the same time. They are a numerous 

 mass of various natural baits, each individual fly to be 

 nicely imitated artificially, and fished by the small 

 flyfisher, which forms his branch of the art of angling; 

 a great majority of these flies are unknown, and all are 

 taken as they appear on the water by the fish. A de- 

 scription of each different fly, with its quality and time 

 of appearance may lead to a knowledge of the whole, 

 when the favourite fly of the fish will not easily escape. 

 The three aquatic tribes, abounding numerous in the 

 Ure, which runs in the centre of England, are as com- 

 mon to its other streams as the fish that are in them 

 or as the land flies the Blue Bottle, the Cow Dung, 

 and the House Fly are common to their district lands. 

 This is verified by the Stone Fly, the Green Drake, and 

 Red Dun being well known in rivers far north and south 

 of the Ure ; and if the aquatic flies of the rivers and 

 burns in Scotland and Wales were examined, they 

 would be found to belong to these three classes. Some 

 of the most popular flies are named by their colours, 



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