SMALL DUNS FOR MAY. 123 



light dun hackle ; tail, two fibres of the hackle. 

 Hook, 11 and 12. To be dressed very small and 

 very neatly. 



Hawthorn-fly. Body, black ostrich harl; 

 wings, dotterel's wing feathers; legs, a feather 

 from the green plover's top-knot. Kills tolerably 

 well on warm, gloomy days. 



Bright yellow dun. This is also called the 

 yellow Sally and little May-fly. It precedes by 

 a week or less the great May -fly, and though it is 

 a beautiful little fly, it rarely does great execu- 

 tion. I would dress it very small as a hackle ; 

 the body of bright yellow floss silk or mohair ; 

 wings and legs of a small hackle, dyed yellow. If 

 you tie it with wings they should be small and 

 stand erect, and made of the mallard's feather, 

 of the same colour as for the large May-fly. The 

 way of dyeing the feather will be shown here- 

 after. 



Cream-coloured dun. Body, cream-coloured 

 mohair, wound on orange silk, and forked with 

 two yellow hairs ; wings, light part of the land- 

 rail's feather; legs, the dubbing picked out. 

 Hook, No. 10 and 11. 



Little whirling dun. Wings of the fibres of 

 one of the pale short feathers which lie underneath 

 the wing-feathers of the male teal ; body, ash- 

 coloured silk, enlivened with a little brown hair, 

 and wound on light orange silk ; legs, one or two 



