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brightish brown or yellowish cast ; warp with yellow silk. Wing, the 

 light feather of a fieldfare. 



Plain Hackle. Body, black ostrich herl, with red or black cock's 

 hackle over it ; and, in hot weather, add gold twist. 



Red Hackle. Body, red silk and gold twist, and a red cock's 

 hackle, till June : afterward use orange silk for the body. An excel- 

 lent fly. 



N. B. This is more properly the orange-fly. It resembles in colour a Seville orange. 

 Wings may be added, either of a ruddy hen or chicken, or of the softest feather of a rook ' 

 wing : the first will give it an orange, the latter a dunnish hue. It has four wings, two 

 next the body, of a very dark gray colour, and two serving as a case over them, sometime, 

 of a dirty blackish colour, and sometimes of an orange colour. 



Bloa Walchet,* Is a small fly, and appears on the water in a cold 

 day. (Hook, No. 9 or 10.) The body, fur of a water-rat, black part 

 of a hare's scut, the pale roots cut off, a very little brown bear's .hair ; 

 warp with pale brown or olive-coloured silk. Wing, of a hen black- 

 bird. 



Yellow Watchel. Body, water-rat's fur, the blackest part of a 

 hare's scut, greenish yellow crewel for feet ; warp with green silk. 

 Wing, the lightest part of a blackbird's feather. Hook, No. 9 or 10. 



Knotted Gray Gnat. Body, darkest part of a hare's scut, dark 

 brown foal's hair, dark fur of the black of an old fox; warp with gray 

 silk. Wing, the bloa feather of a fieldfare. 



Green- Tail. Body, dark part of a hare's scut, and darkest bloa 

 fur of an old fox ; light part of a squirrel's tail, and a hair or two of 

 the coarse brownish part of it for feet ; warp with ash-coloured silk. 

 Wing, of a hen pheasant. 



Sand fly. Body, dark brown foal's hair, a little bloa squirrel's fur, 

 and the whitish yellow of the same ; warp with yellow silk. Wing, 

 the light part of a fieldfare's feather. 



MAY. The nine foregoing flies cirected for April : and also the Bloa 

 Herl. Body, fox's fur, dark part of a hare's scut, greenish herl of a 

 peacock, (if the weather is warm for the season, otherwise little or 

 none of the greenish herl;) warp with brown silk. Wing, of a star- 

 ling's feather. 



Dun. Body, dunnish bloa fur of an old fox, mixed with pale 

 yellow, the ends of the hairs of an old fox almost red, some coarse hairs 

 taken out of the tail, or brush ; warp with yellow. Wing, starling's 

 feather. 



Stone Gnat. Body, the roots of the darkest part of a hare's scut, 

 the top or ends being cut off; warp with ash-coloured siik. Wing, a 

 blackbird's feather. 



Light Bloa. Body, light fur of an old fox, mixed with pale yellow- 

 crewel ; warp with pale yellow silk. Wing, light feather of a jay. 



Orange Brown. Body, orange-coloured wool, with bright brown 

 bear's hair mixed ; warp with orange silk. Wing, of a starling's 

 feather. 



Peacock Hackle. Body, peacock's ruddy herl ; red cock's hackle ; 

 warp with red silk. 



Black Herl. Body, black herl of an ostrich, and ruddy herl of a 



* Watchet ; color caruleus albicam, Skinner. Pale or sky-blue. 



