Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 484
ale, a much larger insect (Fig. 4),has a very small gold area at the base of thewing, with little gold crescents around the black,velvety margin. Both sexes have a narrow col-lar of the color of coral beads, and both sell forninety dollars each. Several other bird-wings are common in… … THESE KUTl I.RFLIES ARE Il.EASINGI.Y PERFUMED. It is said by those who have hunted the Tro-jan bird-wing, that they fly among the trees andvines at the top of narrow gorges, and that they i i 942 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Aug., rarely come down into the bottom, within reachof the…
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