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For playground, field, and forest; the outdoor handy book (1900)

Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 253

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s to the fingers with a magnifyingglass. As a rule, butterflies fly by day and moths at evening ornight. Butterflies have knobbed smellers, feelers, orantennae, and moths have feathered antennee. Most mothsare much thicker and shorter in the body than butterflies,but this is not invariably the case… … veins in the wings, and thesize and proportion of thelatter, and you will soonsee greater difference thanthere is between Irishmen,Germans, Hebrews, Eng-lishmen, negroes, and In-dians. The preservation of cat-erpillars for cabinet use isvery difficult on account oftheir soft, perishable bodies.Some…

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