178 Fisumyc in Amertcan WATERS. 
Letter G, the natural, and H, the artificial cow-dung fly. The 
body of lemon-yellow mohair and a yellow feather, whip- 
ped with yellow silk, and the wings of grayish-blue feather 
of a hen, land-rail, or mallard. This is one of the taking 
flies for March and April, and the best that I ever saw were 
tied by Pritchard Bros. 
Letter K, the artificial, and L, the natural blue dun or violet 
fly. Body of light worsted-violet, mixed with gray down; 
the wings from the pale feathers of a starling’s wing, whip- 
ped with pale yellow silk. The black enat, early and late 
bright browns or cinnamons, palm fly, and whirling dun, 
with the blue dun, dun drake, with palmers, hackles, and 
the stone fly, are intended for both March and April. 
Letter M, the natural, and N, the artificial hawthorn fly. 
Body of black ostrich herl or black seal’s fur, mixed with 
buff mohair; wings of horn shavings, or of the palest 
snipe’s feather or mallard’s wing. 
Letter O, the natural, and P, the artificial oak fly. This is a 
May insect, famous under the names of oak fly, camlet fly, 
down-hill fly, and canon fly. The body is dubbed with 
dark brown shining camlet, whipped with very fine green 
silk, or is made with a bittern’s feather, and the wings from 
the double gray feather of a mallard or of a woodcock. 
Letter Q, the natural, and R, the artificial green drake or 
green May-tly, the common fresh-water fly for May. The 
body is dubbed with hog’s down or light bear’s hair, mix- 
ed with yellow mohair, whipped with pale floss silk, and a 
small strip of peacock’s herl for the head; the wings from 
the rayed feathers of the mallard, dyed yellow; the hackle 
from the bittern’s neck, and the tail from the long hairs of 
the sable or ferret. 
The gray drake is similar in form, but different in colors, 
having the body dubbed with whitish hog’s down, mixed 
with black spaniel’s fur or white ostrich herl, whipped with 
black silk; the wings dark gray mallard; black hackle, with 
silver twist; whisks of tail from a black cat’s whiskers. 
