_February._—Dark fox, hare’s ear and claret, dark grey hackle, plain
black hackle, grey sooty.
_March._—Plain black hackle, plain wren, dark brownrail, dark olive
camel, fox half a shade lighter than last month, dark brown camel,
latter end of the month brown coughlin, dark red hackles’ bodies with
brown coughlin, dirty tawny bodied with hare’s ear, green cowdung, grey
sooty.
_April._—Grey coughlin, light olive camel, light brown rail, ash
fox-blow for latter end of the month, orange cow dung, blue blow, tipped
wing black, plain black midge, hare’s ear and yellow, hare’s ear and
green, plain red hackle orange bodied, do. tipped black hackle, plain
black hackle, blue bodied black hackle, buff fox, grey sooty, all kind
of wren hackles, grey hackles. This list will bring you into May, and
some of them into June.
_May._—Hawthorn fly, yellow may fly, golden sooty, light fox, cream
camel, brown rail, fancy hackle flies, caterpillars, green beetles,
black do., golden palmers, yellow and orange palmers, stone fly, plain
and brown beetles.
_June._—All the may flies, and green fox come in now, and with light fox
continues all the summer; light rail, blue bodied black hackle, orange
bodied red, fancy wrens, gold palmer, green beetle, scaldcrow midge, and
night moth.
_July and August._—The above flies, and the cinnamon called the cadbait
fly.
_September._—Muddy green fox, green rail with plain red hackle, orange
body do., light rail, plain and fancy wrens; small cadbait breasted with
woodcock hackle and double wings, last during the fishing season.
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In fly-fishing, the angler should recollect to take with him some
portion of all the different materials for fly-making: so whimsical
sometimes are trouts, that they may be seen to take insignificant flies
greedily, which at other times they would not look at. When this
happens, catch one of such flies, and try how nearly art can imitate
nature, by framing one as similar as can be.—_Davy_—_Wild
Sports_—_Daniel._
FLYCATCHER, _s._ One that hunts flies; a bird.
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Of the birds which constitute this class, we find only two kinds that
inhabit this island, and these are not the most numerous of the various
tribes with which this country abounds.
The characters of this genus with us are somewhat equivocal, and not
well ascertained; neither do we know of any common name in our language
by which it is distinguished. Mr. Pennant describes it thus:—“Bill
flatted at the base, almost triangular, notched at the end of the upper
mandible, and beset with bristles at its base.”—_Bewick._
FLYFISH, _v._ To angle with a hook baited with a fly.
FOAL, _s._ The offspring of a mare, or other beast of burden.
FOAL, _v._ To bring forth a foal.
FOAM, _s._ The white substance which agitation or fermentation
gathers on the top of liquors; froth, spume.
FOAM, _v._ To froth, to gather foam; to be in rage; to be violently
agitated.
FODDER, _s._ Dry food stored for cattle against winter.
FOLD, _s._ The ground in which sheep are confined; the place where
sheep are housed; the flock of sheep; a double, a complication.
FOMENTATION, _s._ Partial bathing, called steeping; the lotion
prepared to foment the parts.
Fomentations are divided into _emollient_ and _anodyne_.