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3. Also a WHITISH DUN ; made of the roots of camel's 

 hair ; and the wings, of the grey feather of a mallard. 



4. There is also for this month a fly called the THORN- 

 TREE FLY; the dubbing an absolute black, mixt with 

 eight or ten hairs of Isabella-coloured * mohair; the body 

 as little as can be made, and the wings of a bright mal- 

 lard's feather. An admirable fly, and in great repute 

 amongst us for a killer. 



6. There is, besides this, another BLUE DUN;* the 

 dubbing of which it is made, being thus to be got. Take 

 a small tooth-comb, and with it comb the neck of a black 

 greyhound, and the down that sticks in the teeth will be 

 the finest blue that ever you saw. The wings of this fly 

 can hardly be too white ; and he is taken about the tenth 

 of this month, and lasteth till the four and twentieth. 



6. From the tenth of this month also, till towards the 

 end, is taken a little BLACK GNAT. The dubbing, either 

 of the fur of a black water-dog, or the down of a young 

 black water-coot; the wings, of the male of a mallard as 

 white as may be ; the body as little as you can possibly 

 make it, and the wings as short as his body. 



(1) ItabcUa, Speai* di color* cb partecipa del bianco e del giallo. Altirri'a 

 Dictionary. A kind of whitish yellow. or,aome say, buff-colour a little toiled. 



How it en> by this name will appear from the following anecdote, for which 

 I am obliged to a very ingenious and learned lady. The Archduke Albertus, 

 who bad married the Infaa:a Isabella, daughter of Philip the Second, king of 

 Spain, with whom he had the Low Countries in dowry, in the year l602, having 

 determined to lay siege to Ostend, then in possession of the heretics, his pious 

 princess, who attended him in that expedition, made a vow, that till it was taken 

 be would never change her clothes. Contrary to expectation, as the story says, 

 it waa three years before the place was reduced ; in which time hex Highness's 

 linen bad acquired the above-mentioned hue. 



() Blue, or Violet Dun. Dub with the roots of a fox-cub's tail, and a very 

 little blue-violet worsted ; warp with pale yellow silk ; wing, of the pale part 

 of a starling's feather. This fly is taken from eight to eleven, and from one to 

 three. 



This fly, which is also called the Ash-coloured Dun, and Blue Dun, is pro- 

 duced from a cadis; it is so very small, that the hook, known at the shops by 

 the sue No. 9, is full big enough for it, if not too big. The shape of the fly is 

 exactly the same with that of the Green-Drake. So early in the year as Feb- 

 ruary, they will drop on the water before, eight in the morning ; and Trouts at 

 the largest sue, as well as snail ones, will rise at them very eagerly. 



