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that colour, and some violet camlet mixed, and the wing of 

 a gray feather of a mallard. 



3. Erom the sixth of this month to the tenth, we have 

 also a fly called the Violet-fly ; made of a dark violet stuff, 

 with the wings of the gray feather of a mallard. 



4. About the twelfth of this month comes in the fly called 

 the Whirling Dun, 1 which is taken every day, about the mid- 

 time of day, all this month through, and by fits from thence 

 to the end of June ; and is commonly made of the down of 

 a fox-cub, which is of an ash-colour at the roots, next the 

 skin, and ribbed about with yellow silk ; the wings of the 

 pale gray feather of a mallard. 



5. There is also a Yellow Dun, 2 the dubbing of camel's 

 hair, and yellow camlet or wool, mixed, and a white-gray wing. 



6. There is also, this month, another Little Brown, besides 

 that mentioned before ; made with a very slender body, the 



yellow ; wing, dark starling's feather. Taken from eight to eleven. This 

 is a good fly, and to be seen in most rivers ; but so variable in its hue, as 

 the season advances, that it requires the closest attention to the natural 

 fly to adapt the materials for making it artificially, which is also the case 

 with the violet or ash-coloured dun. When this fly first appears, it is 

 nearly of a chocolate colour, from which, by the middle of May, it has 

 been observed to deviate to almost a lemon colour. Northern anglers call 

 it, by way of eminence, the dark brown ; others call it the four-winged 

 brown ; it has four wings, lying flat on its back, something longer than the 

 body, which is longish, but not taper. This fly must be made on a smallish 

 hook, namely, No. 8 or 9. H. 



1 LITTLE WHIRLING DUN. The body, fox-cub, and a little light ruddy- 

 brown mixed : warp with gray or ruddy silk ; a red hackle under the 

 wing ; wing, of a land-rail, or ruddy -brown chicken, which is better. This 

 is a killing fly in a blustering day, as the great whirling dun is in the 

 evening and late at night. H. 



2 YELLOW DTJN. Dub with a small quantity of pale yellow crewel, mixed 

 with fox-cub down from the tail, and warp with yellow ; wing, of a palish 

 starling's feather. Taken from eight to eleven, and from two to four. H. 

 Another way. YELLOW DUN. Dubbing, of yellow wool and ash-coloured 

 fox-cub down mixed together, dubbed [warped] with yellow silk ; wings, 

 of the feather of a shepstare's quill. Others dub it with dun bear's hair, 

 and the yellow fur got from a marten's skin, mixed together, and with 

 yellow silk. Wings, of a shepstare's quill-feather. 



Make two other flies, their bodies dubbed as the last : but in the one, 

 mingle sanded hog's down ; and in the other, black hog's down. Wings, 

 of a shepstare's quill-feather. 



These several flies, mentioned for April, are very good, and mil be 

 taken all the spring and summer. ED. 



