VARIETIES OF FLIES. 137 



28. A good general palmer . Body, long and tapering, 

 of yellow mohair ; legs, a good furnace hackle, wound on 

 from tail to shoulder ; head, black ostrich harl. Hook, 

 Nos. 5, 6, or 7, (fig. 40.) 



29. The whirling dun. Body, water-rat's fur, ribbed 

 with yellow silk ; wings, cock starling's wing-feather ; legs, 

 blue-dun hackle : tail, two fibres of a grizzled hackle. 

 Hook, Nos. 8 or 10, (fig. 15.) 



30. Dotterel hackle. Body, yellow tying silk, with a 

 very little blue rabbit's fur spun on it, so as to show the 

 yellow of the silk ; wings and legs, dotterel hackle round 

 the shoulder. Hook, No. 12, sneck bend. 



31. Golden plover hackle. Body, yellowish- green floss 

 silk ; wings and legs, golden plover back feathers. Hook, 

 Nos. 10 and 11. 



32. Green drake. Appears late in May or early in June. 

 This short-lived insect is not to be found on every stream. 

 Body, yellow floss silk, ribbed with brown silk ; the ex- 

 treme head and tail coppery-peacock's harl ; legs, a red or 

 singer hackle : wines, the mottled wing of a mallard stained 



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olive ; tail or whisk, three hairs from a rabbit's whiskers. 

 Hook, No. G. 



33. Gray drake. Body, white floss silk, ribbed with 

 dark brown or mulberry silk ; head and top of the tail, a 

 peacock's harl ; legs, a grizzle cock's hackle ; wings, from a 

 mallard's mottled feather made to stand upright ; tail, three 

 whiskers of a rabbit. 



34. The little yellow sally. Body, light buff-coloured 

 fur ; wings, the yellow feather under the thrush's wing to 

 stand erect ; legs, a very small yellow dun hackle ; tail, 

 t\vo fibres of the same. 



35. Moths. White : body, white floss silk ; white 



