. The American annual of photography. f bizarre designs and characters. Not long ago I captured a fine male specimen of the sub-specific form of the Ajax Swallow-tail butterfly (Papilio ajaxmarcellus). It was taken on the Maryland side of the PotomacRiver, at Great Falls, and it was a most perfect day I made several negatives of it (5x8), and a photo-graph from one of the best of these is here reproduced inFigure 4. This, it will be seen, was so admirably adapted tocoloring with the Japanese colors that I finished one up in thatway not long afterwards. As this has been very well
. The American annual of photography. f bizarre designs and characters. Not long ago I captured a fine male specimen of the sub-specific form of the Ajax Swallow-tail butterfly (Papilio ajaxmarcellus). It was taken on the Maryland side of the PotomacRiver, at Great Falls, and it was a most perfect day I made several negatives of it (5x8), and a photo-graph from one of the best of these is here reproduced inFigure 4. This, it will be seen, was so admirably adapted tocoloring with the Japanese colors that I finished one up in thatway not long afterwards. As this has been very well spokenof by a number of competent judges, I decided to use it in thepresent connection, and it is as Figure 4 here reproduced asmuch like the original as modern photographic art can makeit. It will be noted that the specimen is in perfect conditionand not mutilated in the slightest degree. This is unusual foran Ajax, for the pair of long tails to the inferior wings areeasily broken off, either during capture or afterwards. It has 176. Figure AJAX SWALLOW-TAIL BUTTERFLY. Illustrating article Technical and Artistic Butterfly Photography, hyDr. R. W. Shufeldt, 177
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