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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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to be studying threedistinct creatures—the Caterpillar, theChrysalis, and the Butterfly. In the Caterpillar our dainty littlefairy presents itself as it appears inits first stage, having just spent a fewdays, or a month, or perhaps the wholewinter in the &gg. It changes its oldskin many times during its Caterpillarlife of twenty or thirty days, at eachchange gaining in weight and bril-liancy, until with the last it appears asa Chrysalis a legless, mummy-likecreature, which maintains its sus-pended position by means of the hookson its tail or by a silken girth aroundits body. A few days before the But-terfly comes forth, it can be seenthrough the thin cases. Finally theskin on the back bursts open and thelittle insect is free. For a few min-utes it stands with drooping wings.Gradually the wings distend and in ashort while reach four times theiroriginal size. Then our Butterflyhastens away to carry its joyfulgreeting to man and flower. So thecycle of Butterfly life can thus be no
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Terias nicippe.Colias philodice.eganostoma eurydice (Male.) BUTTERFLIES.—Life-size.Papilio Photenus.Limenitis ursula.Papilio philolaus. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO Terias mexicana. Jiinoina Coenia. Meganostoma eurydice (Female.) Ml indicated: Eg^g, Caterpillar, Chrysalis,Butterfly, Egg. Why they migrate is not known butevidence enough has been brought inby eye witnesses to prove that thisdoes occur. One flight seen in Switz-erland lasted for two hours, the con-tinuous stream of insects being ten orfifteen feet wide and made up of thespecies called the Painted Lady. Similarcompanies have been seen at sea, asMr. Darwin bears witness, also beforeand after tornadoes in certain places.In Ceylon a gentlemen drove througha cloud of white Butterflies for ninemiles. But very interesting to us, is agreat migration recorded to have beenseen in our own country, in Massachu-setts, about Oct. I, 1876. These arestrange stories, but really hardly morestrange than other facts about the

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