. Birds and nature . ngs, awonder to myself and the center of anadmiring crowd of school children. Weare the largest of the Moths, with some-times a spread of six inches to the and thorax rusty red, abdomen redwith bands of red and white, furryskins, long delicately jointed legs—weare simply superb. But the crowningglory will be my wings of gray withblack and white and red markings, eyespots on the front pair, a crescent ofwhite bordered with red and black on allfour. Formed of pads of skin, richlysupplied with air canals, they will spreadand dry when waved slowly in the shall
. Birds and nature . ngs, awonder to myself and the center of anadmiring crowd of school children. Weare the largest of the Moths, with some-times a spread of six inches to the and thorax rusty red, abdomen redwith bands of red and white, furryskins, long delicately jointed legs—weare simply superb. But the crowningglory will be my wings of gray withblack and white and red markings, eyespots on the front pair, a crescent ofwhite bordered with red and black on allfour. Formed of pads of skin, richlysupplied with air canals, they will spreadand dry when waved slowly in the shall need no food, indeed I shallhave no mouth in this short but bril-liant career of a few days. I shall fly bynight, after a day or two spent in dryingmy wings. I shall find my mate, who willbe smaller than I, but have larger andmore beautiful antennae or feelers. Andthen after the eggs are laid on some con-venient twigs, this short but eventfullife will be ended like the lives of ourpirents before us. Ruth 624 SULPHURY POLYPORUS. (Polyporus sulpliuruus). Yi Life-size COPYRIGHT MUMFOnO, CHICAGO THE SULPHURY POLYPOUS. (Po/yporus sulphureus.) This attractive mushroom may beeasily known by its bright colors and itsclustered mode of growth. Our illustra-tion is a faithful reproduction of beauti-ful specimens of the Sulphury Poly-porus which grew on a living black oaktree about fifteen feet from the the habit of this mushroom isto grow only on dead wood, the host ofthe two illustrated was seemingly soundthroughout. When young, if cut or broken in warmweather, a yellowish juice will caps overlap each other and arefrequently five inches or more in flesh is white and usually not morethan one-half an inch in thickness. Theyoung cap has a yellowish-red or lightorange color which fades as growth con-tinues, to a beautiful yellow color, espe-cially on the margins. A large clusterof the caps of this mushroom with theirbright colors and wavy margi
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