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body, shoulders, and head ; fastened at the head with orange 
or yellow silk ; hackled with a cock pheasant’s purple neck 
feather, for wings and legs. 
The fly from the clapbait is exactly of the same shape as 
the blue bottle, but larger, and near the same color, except 
the wings, which are orange at the shoulders, and the 
cheeks brilliantly gilded. 
22ND.—GRANNAM”™ (or greentail)—Full length, about 
half an inch; length, a quarter and one-sixteenth, which 
appears longer when the female has her cluster of green 
eggs about the end. Wings, three-eighths and one six- 
teenth ; top ones downy, of a light rusty brown tinge and 
transparency, with faint freckles of darker shade. Head, 
shoulders, body, legs, and feelers, coppery brown, with a 
blue tinge on the back and belly ; eyes, dark. Commences 
hatching last month and continues into May. She is one 
of the cod bait or light colored tribe of duns, and shews 
herself more in daylight than some others of her class ; 
hatching in the forenoons, and sporting in small groups 
over the waters in the afternoon and towards evening. 
Several species of the duns, the dotterell, black dun, etc., 
come out and sport over the waters from five to near sun- 
set, when other species make their appearance. 
Winged with slips from a feather out of a partridge or 
hen pheasant’s wing ; body, coppery silk, tinged with water- 
rat’s blue fur; with a few fibres of mohair to imitate the 
legs; or winged and legged with a landrail, or slightly 
freckled feather from a light red brown hen. 
(15) This fly appears in April, but has been noticed by Mr. Francis on the 
water as late as July, and Mr. Roenalds states that he has taken them from the 
stomach of a trout even in August. I once myself saw a dish of ten fine trout taken 
from the river Wharfe by this fly in July, but from personal experience I cannot say 
very much in favour of it, having only caught a few odd fish now and then with its 
imitation. It is not met with on every stream, and even on the rivers where it is 
found it appears in a very erratic manner—some seasons the water being covered 
with them for a week or ten days, and perhaps the next year only two or three flies 
are to be seen. Jackson remarks that the fish take it as early as six o’clock, a.m. 
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