MARCH, 93 
this month, if the weather be very favorable. She is a 
favorite leader with the craft through the spring ; next in 
size and importance to the head of her class, the fairy queen 
or green drake, to whom she resigns her supremacy ; she 
casts the brown badge and becomes the brilliant amber 
drake, or the largest of the red drakes, erroneously called 
spinners. 
16TH.—AmBER DRAKE.Y—Size of the brown drake ; 
wings clear and sparkling, with red and amber tinges and 
reflections ; body, a rich orange or amber color; the dark 
marks and slanting dark lines on the sides, distinct and 
clear, of a dark red brown color; legs and whisks a dim 
amber transparency ; eyes dark. Is the most splendid in 
colors of any of the drakes, and may sometimes be seen 
almost as large as the grey drake. 
Body, bright orange or yellow silk, with eight or nine 
open rounds of dark red brown wound upon it; winged 
and legged with a red or amber cock’s hackle, with a few 
fibres of amber mohair wrought in at the breast. 
177H.-—Licut Brown.—Full length, near or about five- 
eighths, or about the same as the dark brown, which the 
craft distinguish by “inside and outside of woodcock ;” top 
of head and shoulders, dark and shiny; body and breast 
darkest brown, which becomes more orange; thighs and 
legs a dull ale transparency, dark at the joints ; the closed 
wings appear of a light brown ground, broken with veins ; 
and four fleecy stripes across, of a darker shade. When 
looked through are of a light bloaish brown dim trans- 
parency. Commences hatching this month and continues 
into summer, 
(12) “Great Red Spinner” of Ronalds and Francis; “‘ Great Spinner” of Jack- 
son; this imago of the “Brown Drake”’ in common with that of the “ Blue and 
Yellow Duns,” is an excellent evening fly during its season especially after slight 
showers. This fly is also known as the “‘ Light Mackerel” on some rivers. 
