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the weather, the darker ones on fine clear 

 days. 



The Coachman, Oral, and the Governor flies 

 will be found good ones in this month towards 

 night, when the beautiful White Moth may be 

 also seen. 



No. 17. Haee's Ear and Yellow. — The 

 body is made of the light part of the fur ,from 

 the hare's ear, ribbed with yellow silk; the 

 wings are from the wing of the starling or field- 

 fare, and two stiff fibres of honey dun cock's 

 hackle, from the rump for tail, to cock up, pick 

 out the fur at the head for legs. No. 12 hook. 

 It will kill fish every day in this month, and 

 will be found] good till the end of July. It 

 may be also called the Little Cocktail. 



No. 18. The Green Drake. — The body 

 of this beautiful fly is made of yellow green 

 mohair, the color of a gosling newly come out 

 of the shell, and ribbed with yellow-brown silk, 

 a shade of light brown mohair at the tail, and 

 a tuft of the same color at the shoulder, picked 

 out between the hackle, the whisks of the tail 

 to be of three black hairs of tlie mane of a 

 horse, about three-quarters of an inch long; 

 the hackle to be a greenish "buff dyed, (dye a 



