FEBRUARY. 13 
from the rump of the fieldfare, dressed hackle-wise, with a 
few fibres of fine fleshy grizzle hair or fur wrought in at 
the breast, but all must be very small. 
2ND.—THE EARLY Brown’ (dark or winter brown)— 
full length, near or about five-eighths of an inch; length, 
from three-eigths to three-eighths and oné-sixtoenth ; wings 
and feelers near half an inch ; head, shoulders, and os a 
dark brown soil color ; legs and thighs a dark red brown 
dim transparency ; wings, when folded, have a dark brown 
grizzly hue and horny shine upon them, broken with dark 
veins, and three or four wavy stripes across, of a darker 
shade, which are more or less visible; the under sides 
dark, when looked through singly to the light are of a dim 
brown transparency, shewing the dark veins. They com- 
mence hatching the beginning of this month, and continue 
to the end of April. 
Body, head, and shoulders, orange silk, waxed ; feathers 
for wings from under the wing of the woodcock, of deuble 
shade of color, with a few fibres of dark red brown mohair 
wrought in at the breast for legs. 
3RD.—THE LitTLe EARty Brown.—Full length, three- 
eighths to half an inch; feelers and whisks, one-eighth to 
one-fourth ; head, shoulders, breast, and body, dark brown, 
and rather shiny, with a slight down upon them, which 
reflects in the sun a deep gild; feelers, legs, and thighs, a 
dark, dim, red brown transparency, with faint deep gilded 
reflection ; folded wings, a grizzly brown hue, veined, and 
of a brown transparency. They are broader than the needle 
brown, and probably males to the early brown ; they hatch 
the beginning of this month, and continue through April. 
Hackled with a feather from under the swift’s wing ; 
(2) A favourite early spring trout fly among Yorkshire anglers, and usually 
denominated by them ‘‘ Woodcock and Orange.”’ Jackson calls it the “‘ Little Brown,” 
and his dressing is essentially the same as the author’s, 
