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grey, well mixed together; warp with pink and yellow, or 

 pink and light-coloured brown silk, twisted together. 

 Wing, of a pheasant-cock's feather. 



N. B. This, it is supposed, is the Cob-fly, so much cried up in Wales. 



APRIL. LIGHT BLOA. Body, light fox-cub fur, a little 

 light foal's hair ; a little squirrel's bloa, and the whitish 

 yellow of the same, all these well mixed together ; warp 

 with yellow silk. Wing, of a light fieldfare's feather. 



DUN. Body, dunnest filmert 1 or martern's fur, Indian 

 fox-dun, light dun fox-cub, coarse hair of the stump of a 

 squirrel's tail, of abrightish brown or a yellowish cast; warp 

 with yellow silk. Wing, the light feather of a fieldfare. 



PLAIN HACKLE. Body, black ostrich herewith red or 

 black cock's hackle over it; and, in hot weather, add gold 

 twist. 



RED HACKLE. Body, red silk and gold twist, and a 

 red cock's hackle, till June : afterwards use orange silk for 

 the body. An excellent fly. 



N. U. This is more properly the Orange-fly. It resembles in colour a Seville 

 orange. Wings may he added, either of a ruddy hen or chicken, or of the softest 

 feather of a rook's wing : the first will give it an orange, the latter, a dunnish 

 hue. It has four wings, two next the body, of a very dark grey colour, and two 

 serving as a case over them, sometimes of a dirty blackish colour and sometimes 

 of an orange colour. 



BLOA WATCiiET 2 is a small fly, and appears on the 

 water in a cold day. (Hook No. 9 or 10.) The body, fur 

 of a water-rat, black part of a hare's scut, the pale roots 

 cut off, a very little brown bear's hair ; warp with pale 

 brown or olive-coloured silk. Wing, of a hen blackbird. 



YELLOW WATCIIET. Body, water-rat's fur, the blackest 

 part of a hare's scut, greenish yellow crewel for feet; warp 

 with green silk. Wing, the lightest part of a blackbird's 

 feather. Hook No. 9 or 10. 



KNOTTED GREY GNAT. Body, darkest part of a hare's 

 scut, dark brown foal's hair, dark fur of the black of an 

 old fox ; warp with grey silk. Wing, the bloa feather of 

 a fieldfare. 



GREEN- TAIL. Body, dark part of a hare's scut, and 

 darkest bloa fur of an old fox ; light part of a squirrel's 



(1) Filmert. This is the animal which Walton, p. 12, calls thefulimart; but 

 the former is a name by which it is very well known at the furriers. 



(2) Watchet ; Color caruleut albicans, Skinner. Pale or sky-blue. 



