The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 622
from the end of June to the end of July. It loves tothread its way through the mazes of the thicket, and occasionallyto emerge into the open rides and clearings, floating on the air Of late years the White Admiral has been discovered inWoolmer Forest, the most northern point of its occurrence,… … THE PURPLE EMPEROR. without apparent effort, its wings scarcely betraying a trace ofmovement, stopping now and then to taste the sweets of brambleblossoms, for which it shows a remarkable partiality. There isno insect which inherits a more elegant flight than the WhiteAdmiral. Its wings, which…
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