Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 86
d now, here is another butterflypicture, quite as curious in its way. The queercreature shown in this picture is perched head-down-ward on a branch, the under-part of him turnedtoward you in such a way as to appear to be thehead of an owl peering at you over the branch. Inthe dim forests of his… … eyesshine al-most as beauti-fully as a dovesneck. The widthacross the wingsis about seveninches, and tothink they seean owl with ahead of that size must be disagreeable for small South Americans,who may happen to be strolling in the woods atevening. IF SO-HOWP L. M. D. SAYS, in answer to my January…
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