50 LIST OF FLIES. 
yellow or fawn colored silk, tinged with fine blue fur; red 
hackle for legs. 
59TH.—BLACK DrAkE.—Length various, from one-eighth 
and one-sixteenth to three-eighths. Is the darkest of the 
drake tribes, altogether of a leady black hue. Commences 
hatching the middle of this month ; and continues through 
June and July. They cast their skins and become the 
black red drake. 
Hackled, for legs and wings, with a dark leady feather 
from the coot or water-hen ; body, red or crimson silk. 
60TH.—BLACK-RED DRAKE.—Near the same size as the 
black drake, but smarter. Head, top of shoulders, and 
body, a deep red or black brown, shewing orange or yellow 
at the joints, sides of shoulders, and setting on of the legs. 
Belly a dim amber ; legs and whisks a dim ale transparency ; 
eyes large and dark. The drawing was from one taken off 
a spider’s web; the wings tied to the tail by the spider's 
threads. 
Black red cock’s hackle, or purple feather from the cock- 
pheasant’s neck, for wings and legs; orange silk for body. 
61sT.—GREY SPINNER (see spinner class).—Length, one 
inch more or less ; wings the same, which are of a brown 
transparency, with patches of lighter shade, branched and 
crossed with dark veins. Shoulders, thighs, and breast, 
shades of ash, with dark marks ; body a greenish ash, with 
dark touches along each side ; bert held to the light the 
middle joints shew a dim transparency ; thighs, lighter, 
darkening down the legs. Is the largest of the spinner 
class, not numerous, but may be sometimes seen on the 
banks of the streams, from the beginning of this month into 
July. They are not imitated for small flyfishing—the hind 
legs of some measure three inches. 
