28o GAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 



I. Scarlet wings and coverts or scapulas of wood duck feathers. 



3. Scarlet wings, white scapulas, hackle of purple and orange, and tail of yel- 

 ow, white, scarlet and wood duck mixed. Body orange and gireen whipped with 



silver tinsel. 



3 Wings of rayed mallard feathers dyed yellow, scarlet scapulas, body yci- 

 ow, aackle of peacock's herl mixed with yellow. 



4. Turkey wings, hackle of scarlet and orange, tail red, yellow and black, 

 bod} orange whipped with green and gold tinsel. 



5. Wings white, scapulas scarlet, body lavender and peacock whipped with 

 silver tmsel, deep purple hackle and tail of blue, white, scarlet and yellow, 

 mixed. 



6. Parrot feather wing (green), yellow hackle, green body whipped with gold, 

 tail scarlet and white. 



7. Turkey wing, body orange whipped with silver, green hackle, tail yellow 

 and scarlet. 



8. Turkey wing, brown hackle, peacock body terminating in yellow, with 

 scarlet tail. 



9. Brown cock feather wings, dun body whipped with orange, hackle of grey 

 rabbit's 'ur, tail brown. 



zo. Oiange body and hackle, scarlet wings, scapula and tail of jungle cock 

 feathers. 



II. Blue body whipped with gold, blue hackle, w^ings of ashes of rose color, 

 scapulas of jungle cock mixed with black, tail scarlet, black and white, and black 

 antenna. 



13. Scarlet body whipped with silver, wings dyed subhyaline and terminating 

 in two bars of white and black, coverts scarlet, hackle grey and black, tail black, 

 white and red. 



13. Body solferino color, wings the same, coverts grey, hackle brown, tail 

 grey, head black — a very killing fly for southern, western or northern waters. 



[For southern and western patterns see the appropriate chapters of this book.] 



The baits taken by the black bas^ are as diverse as the styles 

 of flies. Bass are almost omnivorous, taking red worms, crick- 

 ets, grasshoppers, fresh water mussels, frogs, shrimp, crayfish, 

 minnow and ^obsons, so called at the north and known as the 

 Helgramite at the south ; the same being the full grown larvae 

 and pupae of several aquatic species in the family Sialina. Their 

 feeding ground is chiefly in sluggish rivers. They are rare in 

 mountain streams or head springs. They are both herbivorous 

 and carnivorous. Ephemeridse, small-sized beetles, and water- 

 fleas, entomostraca, are their principal food, but they have been 

 reared to maturity in aquaria on an almost exclusively vegetable 

 diet. The wings of the perfect insect are almost twice the length 

 of the body, closely reticulated with veins, semi-transparent, and 

 Df a yellow ashen color. An imitation made of newly tanned 



