. A year of Costa Rican natural history. ?^Eltliidl^. Schoolhouse in Taras, near Reventazon River at Orosi. To face p. 14s LOWER NEIGHBORS OF CART AGO 145 hood. As I walked back to Cartago, every now and then,looking over wide open fields, I could see the same species inapparently equal numbers flying toward the east, nonereturning. How wide the area of flight was I do not know,but it was certainly not less than half a mile and may havebeen much more, as I have no reason to think that the narrowlane was specially favored by them. Half a mile and thecount I made would give 285,120 b
. A year of Costa Rican natural history. ?^Eltliidl^. Schoolhouse in Taras, near Reventazon River at Orosi. To face p. 14s LOWER NEIGHBORS OF CART AGO 145 hood. As I walked back to Cartago, every now and then,looking over wide open fields, I could see the same species inapparently equal numbers flying toward the east, nonereturning. How wide the area of flight was I do not know,but it was certainly not less than half a mile and may havebeen much more, as I have no reason to think that the narrowlane was specially favored by them. Half a mile and thecount I made would give 285,120 butterflies for the hour anda half during which I specially noticed them, and they wereflying both before and after this time, for my route backto Cartago led across their path to some extent, until Ireached coffee plantations surrounded by high hedges sothat further observation was impossible. On June 23 we went to Juan Vinas and almost every daythat we were there we saw large numbers of the same speciesof butterfly. On June 30 they were particularl
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