APRIL, 37 
Pale orange or dim yellow silk, and red cock’s-hackle 
feather. 
35TH.—HAWTHORN FLy.”—Full length from three-eighths 
to half an inch ; length nearly the same. Head, shoulders, 
body, and legs, jet black and shiny, thinly set with black 
short hair; wings fine, of a light, grizzly transparency. 
They resemble the cow dung or lion fly, but are a little 
more slender, and, like him, is a savage warrior fly, devour- 
ing others. They are sheathed, body and limbs, in glossy 
black mail, haunting hawthorn trees and hedges. They are 
bred on land, making their appearance the latter end of 
this month, and are gone by the end of May. 
Head, shoulders, and body, black silk, with black seal’s 
fur or mohair twisted or wrought in; winged with a light 
neutral feather from the snipe or starling; with a black 
hen-hackle for legs. 
36TH.—RED Brown Drake.—Length, about three- 
eighths ; wings rather more; in outline and clouded wing 
it resembles the brown drake, but is less in size, and its 
colors all darker; the wings resembling the mottled red 
feather in the partridge’s tail. Body orange, with dark red 
brown marks on the upper parts ; legs, a dim ale or amber. 
Hatches the latter end of this month, and casts her skin, 
when she becomes the dark amber drake. 
Dressed with a mottled red feather out of the partridge 
tail, and orange silk, with a few fibres of orange or amber 
mohair at the breast. 
(22) This fly is generally dressed as a palmer, as recommended by Ronalds, or 
dressed like a large black gnat, as suggested by Mr. Francis and Jackson. I have 
only had good sport with the imitation on one occasion, when on a gloomy day in 
August, 1868, while fishing in the Yore below Ripon, I killed eleven fine grayling ; 
there was a full water, and the fish would lgok at no other fly, I should say that if 
fished natural, on a small hook, this fly would kill well on trout streams overhung 
by hawthorn bushes, but not having tried it I cannot speak from experience, but 
merely give the hint for what it may be worth. 
