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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 549

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f Unarmed In-sects, and this butterfly is a good example. A photograph of the entire tree would havebeen more convincing, but the camera and the treewere five miles apart when I came upon theswarm of Anosia plexippus (for that is his swellLatin name; his other name is quite as aristo-cratic, for he… … way from Canada to Cuba, and take other longflights so that they get into the sunny South forthe winter. They have a most extraordinary poweron the wing and have been seen flying at sea fivehundred miles from land, but it is their congre-gating in the fall of the year that I wish to illus-trate.…

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