40 LIST OF FLIES. 
the sun; under wings a uniform bloa tinge, and fringed. 
Body a leady hue; legs a white yellow. Is something like 
‘the early dun, but has been observed to hatch freely the 
latter end of this month and the beginning of May. 
Hackled with a freekled bloa feather from the golden 
plover ; for wings and legs, copper-colored silk, tinged with 
water-rat’s blue fur. 
42ND—FRECKLED Dun.”-—Full length, better than half 
an inch to five-eighths; length, three-eighths or more; 
wings, better than half an inch, the top ones a dark red 
brown ground and transparency, with longitudinal dark 
veins ; and beautifully freckled with marks and spots of a 
fawn or buff color. Light side lines, broadest next the 
shoulders ; back, belly, thighs, and legs, a dark, reddish ash 
or lead color—the two last joints of the body darkest ; eyes 
dark ; the side lines light copper color. 
This is a fine dun fly, the produce of the stickbait. They 
appear to hatch twice a year, commencing this month, and 
are plentiful in May and June, and again in September and 
October. After hatching they may be seen flying about in 
the day-time ; their eggs are an amber color. 
Winged and legged with a freckled feather from the 
moorcock ; and orange silk or copper colored silk for body; 
winged with slips from the moorcock, and legged with 
moorcock’s hackle ; body, tinged with water-rat’s blue fur. 
43RD.—Licut Dun.”—Full length, better than half an 
inch to five-eighths ; length, three-eighths or more; wings, 
better than half an inch, the top ones near the shade of the 
outer skin of a dried onion, with faint mottles and cross- 
ings a shade darker ; body, thighs, and legs, a light bees’- 
(25) The imitation of this fly, dressed as above, is an excellent killer on the 
Laver, a small brook near Ripon, which after joining the Skell flows into the Yore, 
little distance below the city ; locally this fly isknown as ‘ Moorcock and Spicey Silk.” 
(26) “Alder Fly” of other writers; Mr. Francis recommends it as a useful 
evening fly, and Mr. Ronalds remarks that, where plentiful, it is best fished natural, 
