98 FLIES FOR FEBRUARY AND MARCH. 



mohair a little yellow hare's fur, and tying on 

 with yellow silk. 



The red fly. Body of the dark red part of 

 squirrel's fur, mixed with an equal quantity of 

 claret-coloured mohair, showing most claret colour 

 at the tail of the fly ; to be spun on, and warped 

 with brown silk thread. Wings, from a ginger- 

 dun covert feather of the mallard's wing ; legs, 

 a claret-coloured stained hackle. Mr. Ronalds 

 ("Fly-fisher's Entomology"), according to whose 

 fashion the fly is dressed, observes of it, " that it 

 appears about the middle of February, and is in 

 season until the end of March, and may be used 

 on fine but rather windy days, until the blue 

 dun and other flies come in. I have taken very 

 large grayling with it." 



Blue dun. Body of the hare's ear, dark and 

 yellow part mixed with a little yellow mohair, 

 the whole to be spun on yellow silk ; wings, from 

 a feather of the starling's wing, stained in onion 

 dye ; tail, two small whiskers of a rabbit ; legs to 

 be picked out of the dubbing, at the thick part 

 near the wings. 



N. B. Infuse the outer coatings of an onion 

 in water, and macerate by the fire for a day. 

 Dun feathers boiled in the liquid will become an 

 olive dun, white hackles will become yellow, and 

 the addition of a little copperas will stain them a 

 yellow-olive dun. 



