26 LIST OF FLIES, 
brown; body, stone color, which, with the shoulders are 
‘hairy, and reflect in the sun tints of various colors—blue, 
green, etc. Thighs and feet dark brown ; legs, a dim ale 
transparency set with small black hairs. This is a descrip- 
tion of a fine one taken in a wood by the Ure side; they 
vary in their sizes and colors. They are bred on land, and 
are out in great numbers every day from morning till 
night throughout the season, and are well taken by the fish 
whenever they come upon the waters. 
Hackled with a blackbird’s feather for wings and legs ; 
body, brimstone colored silk, with a small portion of fine 
black hair or fur, worked in. 
21st.—Biue Bortie" (or flesh fly).—Full length, half 
an inch or better; length, three-eighths; wings, three- 
eighths, which are clear and glassy, of a darkish blue tinge, 
a point of light stone or bees’ wax color at the setting on 
of the wings ; head, shoulders, and body, a rich dark glossy 
blue, with rich reflections, and shifting shades of light blue, 
etc., which are thinly set with dark blue or black hairs. 
Eyes, brown ; nose, cheeks, and chin, a light bees’ wax hue, 
with deep reflections; legs and breast, blue black, and 
hairy. During the season they are found of various shades, 
some, top of shoulders and the back, checkered with squares 
of dim stone, mingled with blue and bright, with moving 
shades and rich reflections. They are land flies, breeding 
daily throughout the season, and are out from morning till 
night. They are not much used artificially ; their larve, 
the maggot, is a well known natural bait. 
They may be imitated with threads of light and dark 
blue shining silk or Alpaca wool, wound on the arming, for 
(14) The best imitation of this fly that ever I saw was sent to me some years 
agé by the late Mr. James Ogden, of Cheltenham : the body was formed of some kind 
of blue tinfoil, warped with black harl and purple silk, this, combined with wings 
from a jay’s feather, made up an exact imitation of the fly, and I caught some 
good dishes of grayling with it both on the Yore and Wharte. 
