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The wings are darker, and just about 
the color the varnished seed-leaf will 
give. After preparing the body, as de¬ 
scribed for the small spinner, though it 
should be plumper, fasten on the wings 
so that they droop partly over the body, 
but having them flare out somewhat. 
This is the position the insect ordinarily 
carries its wings in when at rest, or else 
extended at the side. 
I have never seen a moth at rest with 
its wings vertical. The position is 
sometimes taken temporarily, but not as 
a rule when the insect is resting. The 
six legs of light gut, stained brown, are 
to be fastened on as described for the 
spinner, but should be about three- 
eighths of an inch long. The finished 
insect is to be varnished and dried. 
Moths up to a No. 6 hook in size may 
be made in this fashion. Wings of 
feather or thin sheet celluloid may be 
used, but are not as buoyant as those 
of the maple seed-leaf. 
A very good shad fly is made of a 
No. 8 or No. 10 hook, using the blunt 
end of a porcupine quill for the body 
and maple seed-leaf wings. The body 
is about nine-sixteenths of an inch long. 
The quill, stained light green for the 
male and brown for the female, is 
forced over the eye of the hook, pointed 
end first. It is securely lashed to the 
hook at the eye and varnished. 
The wings are taken from a small 
maple seed-leaf, trimmed down so that 
they will extend just beyond the bend 
of the hook, when fastened on. They are 
secured by lashing the main rib of the 
seed-leaf to the hook just back of the 
eye, after to be varnished and dried 
several times. 
The maple seed-leaf is the closest in 
appearance to an insect’s wing in shape, 
structure and venation, that I have suc¬ 
ceeded in finding. The two feelers, each 
about half an inch long, are made of a 
doubled length of gut, colored to match, 
and lashed on at the eye of the hook, 
on top, so that they will extend in front 
of the body. The six legs of light gut, 
stained to match, are lashed on to the 
bottom of the forward end of the body, 
one pair under the forward end of the 
wings, and the other pairs each about 
an eighth of an inch behind the pre- 
ceeding pair. Varnish the finished fly 
and hang up to dry. 
A March Brown is made on a No. 8, 
10, or 12 hook, with a porcupine quill, 
pointed and extended out behind, for 
a body. The wings are of dried maple 
seed-leaf, and are the closest to the na¬ 
tural that I have been able to find. 
They are prepared by varnishing and 
drying several times. Trim off the seed 
at the lower end, and leave a little of 
the main rib projecting, by which it is 
to be lashed to the body. The quill is 
stained light brown. It is softened in 
water and lashed for about three-six¬ 
teenths of an inch to the body just a 
little back of the eye. 
It is then varnished to make a little 
air chamber to assist in flotancy. It 
projects about half or three-quarters of 
an inch behind the bend of the hook, 
and stands up quite in the appearance 
of the natural. The wings are lashec 
on in an upright position on the hook 
just ahead of the porcupine body. The) 
may be separated, before the fly is var 
nished, about an eighth of an inch 
This helps to “cock” the fly somewha 
better, but is not quite so lifelike in ap 
pearance. 
The six legs, of thin brown gut, are 
next placed on. The first pair shoulc 
be at the extreme front of the body anc 
project forward. The second paii 
should be just under the front end o 
the wings, and the third pair about ar 
eighth of an inch further back. Th( 
fly should then be varnished and hun£ 
up to dry. 
Generally stated, the advantages o 
.the flies described are these: they wil 
float—most of them will not sink ever 
when leader and line are submerged 
they are more natural in appearancs 
than the ordinary “fly,” and for the mos 
part are extremely durable. 
Edwin T. Whiffen, 
New York. 
NATURAL HISTORY 
(Continued from page 64) 
rivals in noise and robbery are keepim 
their winter stores, and many a re( 
squirrel has sputtered in impotent rag 
when he found one of his favorite cache 
broken into by the gay-coated air thieve; 
One of the most laughable sights in th 
woods is the spectacle afforded by ; 
blue jay and a red squirrel mutually be 
rating each other and trying at the sain 
time to stow away the winter’s supplie 
without revealing the hiding places. 
Notwithstanding its bad habits eac> 
bird has a great deal to commend il 
for many a lonely trapper has beei 
amused by the mischievous tricks of th 
whiskyjack, while the sportsman horn 
from the backwoods tells with neve 
failing delight of “the way that bund 
of blue jays tormented one of those bi; 
Cat Owls.” The coat of the blue ja 
will always endear him to the lover o 
Nature, for there are all too few of ou 
native birds in blue livery, and non 
that display it more conspicuously thai 
our noisy friend. 
THE SHY ONE 
P ROBABLY the word “mouse” bring 
to the minds of most people the pic 
ture of a dirty gray little animal scud 
ding for shelter as the pantry door i 
opened. Against this hanger-on mai 
has always contested, but, nevertheless 
it has followed him to the ends of th 
earth. We hate the mouse and it 
thievish ways; and as it is paralelled ii 
destructiveness by most of the nativ 
wild species of this country, we hav 
come to look askance on all mice. 
One species, however, does compara 
tively little damage: its appearance i 
also markedly different from that of th 
house mouse and the meadow mice an< 
field mice with which the farms ar 
overrun. Even the most prejudice! 
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