34 LIST OF FLIES. 
smarter, and a little more slim ; wings, sparkling and glassy, 
with a light pearly tinge, or nearly colourless transparency. 
Eyes, head, shoulders, and the end joints of the body, a fine 
dark brown ; legs, whisks, and middle joints, a light pearl 
transparency. They are out and assemble in groups every 
day and evening to the end of autumn. 
Fine coffee-brown silk for the brown parts, and white for 
the pearl parts of the body; winged and legged with a 
glassy silvery cock’s hackle. 
29TH.—SPIRAL Brown DRAKE (or Checkwing).»—Length 
three-eighths or better ; wings the same, of a light brown 
ground, with strong longitudinal dark lines crossed into 
squares, with small ones, which have named them. When 
seen through a glass the lines are back shaded with darker, 
like the Royal Charlie. Body, a darkish ashy brown, with 
a ring of lighter on each joint, and a light line runs along 
each side ; whisks and legs a bloa-brown dim transparency, 
eyes, some goggling and some cased ; as the season advances 
they shew distinctly the slanting dark lines along the sides, 
similar to the brown drake. 
Body, orange or yellow silk; hackled, for wings and 
legs, with a freckled-brown feather from the back or shoul- 
der of a partridge, with a few fibres of hare’s ear wrought 
in at the breast. 
it comes as near the mark as it is possible, but Mr. Aldam, who speaks very highly 
of this fly, having had excellent sport with it on the Chatsworth waters in October, 
1852, states that a good material with which to form the body is a horse hair of trans- 
parent watery whiteness; I have never found the imitation work well myself, even 
when the fish have been feeding all over the river at the natural fly ; the above- 
named authority, together with Mr. Francis and Ronalds, name this fly the “ Jenny 
Spinner,” while Jackson styles it the ‘‘ Little White Spinner.” 
(20) Although Mr. Ronalds treats this as a separate fly, under the name of the 
“Turkey Brown,” and Jackson as the ‘‘ May Brown,” I am strongly of opinion that 
it is only a lighter shade and variety of the “March Brown ;” and thus the system 
introduced by Mr. Francis, and also advocated by the late David Foster, of treating 
the long lists of “ Browns,” “ Bloas,” ‘ Duns,” and ‘Spinuers,’’ issued by other 
writers, as only different shades of one fly is gradually gaining ground, and very 
rightly so, as it greatly simplifies the art of flyfishing, and does not confuse the mind 
of the beginner by an almost endless list of names. 
