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ceiver, letting it slowly down on the surface 

 of the water, to float about with the wind. 



No. 5 is a small yellow fly of slender 

 make, and is also to be seen in quick run- 

 ning streams ; it is about three-eighths of 

 an inch long, with flat wings and no prongs. 

 Its wings may be imitated with the wing 

 feather of a fieldfare, dyed yellow, and its 

 body and legs with yellow wool. 



No. 6. This fly rises in June, and is to 

 be met with where the water runs steadily. 

 It is an amphibious fly, about three-quarters 

 of an inch long, and is called in Scotland 

 the spinnail or spinner. Its wings are set 

 out at right angles on a level with its body. 

 It has no prongs, but the female has a large 

 sharp ovapositor, which she uses in sand- 

 banks that are covered with water in winter. 

 She deposits her spawn with great regularity. 

 After selecting a place, she makes a hole 

 with her ovapositor, puts in one spawn, and 

 then goes forward an inch and drops in 

 another, until she finishes a drill nine inches 

 long; she then steps down an inch, and 

 makes a similar drill parallel to the first ; 

 and continues working down the bank in 



