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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 495

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THE OWL-BUTTERFLY. most of which belong to tropical America. In thecenter of each hind wing, on the under side, is agreat, eye-like spot on a mottled brown ground.Hold it so that the antennas, or feelers, point to- … MARKING ON THE WING. ward you, and a remarkable resemblance to anowls face and head is at once apparent. Testthis by the photograph on this page. The beauti-ful eighty and eighty-eight butterflies, fromSouth America, get their names from the numer-als which have been traced by Nature upon theunder…

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