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learn that he in no case was satisfied 

 that he had the correct type of any in- 

 sect until he had secured at least two 

 hundred specimens of that insect, all 

 taken from the water and none from 

 the air. In America it is doubtless 

 true that many anglers have examined 

 carefully various insects they have 

 seen on our trout streams, but no one 

 apparently has carried his investiga- 

 tions so far as to make them of prac- 

 tical value to a large number of his 

 fellow anglers. 



But still this situation does not make 

 the successful use of the dry-fly on 

 American streams impossible or even 

 inadvisable. The favorite English- 

 made floating flies are imitations of 

 the Ephemeridse, and there seems to 

 be little doubt that many of the duns 

 found upon the streams of England also 

 exist on American waters. Whether 



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