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towards the roots, tanned with the weather ; one peacock's herl may 

 be twisted with it : warp with ruddy silk. Wing, the light part of 

 a starling's feather, left longer than the body. A killing fly after an 

 emmet-flight, but not before. 



AUGUST. The Pismire through this month; as also the other flies 

 of the last month. 



SEPTEMBER. Large foetid Light Brown. The body of light calf 

 or cow's hair, or seal's tur dyed of the colour ; warp with ruddy or 

 orange-coloured silk. Wing, of a ruddy brown chicken large and long. 

 A killing fly in a morning. This fly is much upon Hackney river, and 

 is much ruddier there than elsewhere. In the Thames, I have caught 

 with it Dace of the largest size, and in great numbers. Somewhat of 

 its history is given in the notes, p. 195. 



No. III. 



[Referred to from Part II. p. 275, note.] 



JANUARY. Spring Black. Body, black wool of a sheep's face, 

 with or without a greenish peacock's herl; warp with brown silk. 

 Wing, the gray feather of a mallard. 



Second Spring Black. Body, the very blackest part of the darkest 

 hare's scut you can procure; with or without a greenish peacock's 

 herl; warp with ash-coloured silk. Wing, of a fieldfare's feather. 

 This and the other spring black are best taken in bright weather. 



Bloa* Herl. Body, black rabbit's scut ; black of a hare's scut ; 

 greenish peacock's herl ; warp with brown silk. Wing, the light part 

 of a fieldfare's feather. 



Black Hackle. Body, pale yellow, silk ; with a black cock's hackle 

 turned about it. 



Dun Hackle. Body, dun-coloured silk ; with a dun cock's hackle. 



FEBRUARY. The same flies as are directed for the preceding month. 



MARCH. The same flies as are directed for the preceding months, 

 and also the 



Turkey Fly, or March Fly. Body, brown foal's hair, tops of the 

 wings of a woodcock, some ruddy, others gray, well mixed together ; 

 warp with pink and yellow, or pink and light-coloured brown silk, 

 twisted together. Wing, of a pheasant-cock's feather. 



N.B. This, it is supposed, is the cob-fly, so much cried up in Wales. 



APRIL. Light Bloa. Body, light fox-cub fur, a little light foal's 

 hair ; a little squirrel's bloa, and the whitish yellow of the same, all 

 these well mixed together ; warp with yellow silk. Wing, of a light 

 fieldfare's feather. 



Dun. Body, dunnest filmart,f or martern's fur, Indian fox-dun, 

 light dun fox-cub, coarse hair of the stump of a squirrel's tail, of a 



* This is a north-country word, and, as I am told, signifies a colour resembling that of 

 a mole's back, which has a bluish gloss. I find it is thus explained, in a catalogue of 

 local words communicated in a letter from Mr Thoresby, of Leeds, to Mr Ray : " Bloa, 

 black and blue." Philosophical Letters, between the learned Mr Ray, and several of his 

 ingenious correspondents, octavo, 1718, p. 321. 



t Filmart. This is the animal which Walton, chap. i. p. 48. calls the fulimart ; but the 

 former is a name by which it is very well known at the furriers. 



