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yellow silk ; legs, pale red or yellow cock's hackle. Lime- 

 rick hook, No. 1 or 2. All the season. 



17. SPANISH NEEDLE. Head, peacock's herl ; wings, brown 

 owl; body, brown silk. Limerick hook, No. 1. May. 



18. PHEASANT, BROWN. Head, peacock's herl; wings, cock- 

 pheasant's feather from breast ; legs, small mottled feather 

 from the neck of a grouse ; body, brown silk. Limerick 

 hook, No. 2 or 3. All the season. . 



19. SAND-FLY. No. 1. Head, peacock's herl ; wings, inside 

 of woodcock's wing ; body, fibres from heron's quill -feather ; 

 legs, red cock's hackle. To dress this fly I prefer the ruddy 

 feather from the corncrake's wing, and the body ribbed with 

 two strands from the tail-feather of a cock pheasant, and a 

 claret-coloured hackle for legs, with or without a copper- 

 coloured peacock's herl for head. Limerick hook, No. 1. 

 (Plate in. cxiii.) April and September. 



20. SPIDER-FLY. Head, peacock's herl ; wings, outside of 

 woodcock's wing ; body, lead-coloured silk ; legs, black 

 cock's hackle. Limerick hook, No. 1 . All day, a capital 

 fly. April to middle of May. 



21. GREEN BODY. Head, peacock's herl; wings, from 

 quill-feather of jay: body, pale green silk; legs, red cock's 

 hackle. Limerick hook, No. 1. July. 



22. HARE'S LUG. Wings, light woodcock ; body, dubbed 

 with hare's lug, dressed with yellow silk; when in the 

 height of the season, a piece of bright green floss silk is 

 wrapped (thick) at the tip ; it is then called the Green-tail. 

 An excellent fly, of which trout are very fond. It will kill 

 all the season without the green tail, and almost in any 

 water. Limerick hook, No. 2. A standard fly. 



23. YELLOW-LEGS. Wings, from quill-feather of golden- 

 plover, or dotterel, the lightest you can get ; legs, yellow 

 cock's hackle ; body, bright yellow silk. Limerick hook, 

 No. 1 or 2. April to July. 



24. WATCHETT. Head, magpie; wings, from jackdaw; 

 body, dubbed with water-rat's fur. Limerick hook, No. 1 

 or 2. May. 



25. STONE MIDGE. Head, peacock's herl ; wings, from 



