NEW NAMES FOR FLIES 



to collect and classify a complete collection of the 

 various orders of the insect world in so vast a coun- 

 try as ours. This wide field is waiting for some 

 able student or professor of entomology. 



The present conditions are now that the ama- 

 teur — indeed, the average angler — is helpless: he 

 must of necessity purchase whatever the dealer has 

 for sale, both domestic and imported, in the way of 

 trout flies; and it is natural to suppose that the 

 dealer wants to buy low and sell at high prices. It 

 is a remarkable fact that certain popular flies — 

 like the March brown, cowdung, and many others 

 I could mention — as sold by the dealers are as un- 

 like the natural insect as possible. Each maker has 

 his own idea what a March brown is ; but, curiously 

 enough, no imitation is at all like the natural insect 

 of that name. So I change mine to the old- 

 fashioned title of brown drake. 



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