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herl near the tip. Limerick hook, No. 2. Equally as good 

 as the former, and to be used at the same time of day, (Plate 

 iv. Ixx.) June. 



70. THE SEA-SWALLOW. Wings, from the wing of the 

 sea-swallow, white hackle ; body, white silk ; head, black 

 ostrich's herl ; tail, two strands of the same feather as the 

 wings. Limerick hook, No. 1. A good fly when the water 

 is the colour of porter. June and July. 



71. THE RED SPINNER. Wings, from the wing of the 

 brown owl, or the dingy copper- coloured feather on the 

 outside of the mallard's wing, or from the quill-feather of 

 a young cuckoo ; body, dark crimson, or dingy copper- 

 coloured silk, ribbed with gold tinsel, made tapering from 

 the shoulder to the tail ; legs, a dingy red cock's hackle ; 

 whisks, two hairs from a bear's skin. Some parties use for 

 the wings of this fly, a delicate starling or snipe's feather ; 

 others, . that of the sea-gull ; but, from the colour of the 

 natural fly, it ought to have a warm golden tinge. It is one 

 of the most difficult flies to imitate. I would make it 

 thus : Wings, taken from the transparent feather found on 

 the inside of a jay's wing, of a warm tinge ; body, orange 

 silk ribbed with yellow, and two or three strands from the 

 golden pheasant's topping ; legs, a small golden pheasant's 

 hackle ; whisks, two hairs from a bear's skin. Limerick 

 hook, No. 2, 1, or 0, according to the season, (Plate in. 

 Ixxii.) April to July. 



72. THE BLACK RABBIT. Wings, from the quill -feather 

 of the blackbird, or, if hackled, from the back of the large 

 fieldfare ; legs, a dusky black hackle ; body, fur from a 

 black rabbit, mixed with claret-coloured worsted, just to 

 tinge it. Limerick hook, No. 2. March. 



73. THE BRECHAN CLOCK. Body, fur from the hare's 

 ear, mixed with a little lilac worsted ; wings, from the daker 

 hen or corn-crake ; some use a snipe's feather ; some parties 

 rib the thickish body with gold, or, perhaps better, with 

 silver tinsel. Limerick hook, No. 1. A capital fly in Fell 

 Becks, when running clear. May, June, and July. 



74. THE HAZLE-FLY, OR MARLOW Buzz. Wings, from 



