. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . • meet, but being at thesame time careful not tocrumple the wings, andso produce a false will then, without fail,hear the sweet secrets of An-tiopa, which are beautiful anddelicate in expression, recallingthe trickle of a brooklet. Now that may be all very wellfor the European Antiopa, but itwont work on the American in-sect. I sometimes have fanciedthat I could hear a certain faintsqueak from the moving wings notonly of the Antiopa but also ofthe Semicolon butterfly—a sounddistinct from the mere
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . • meet, but being at thesame time careful not tocrumple the wings, andso produce a false will then, without fail,hear the sweet secrets of An-tiopa, which are beautiful anddelicate in expression, recallingthe trickle of a brooklet. Now that may be all very wellfor the European Antiopa, but itwont work on the American in-sect. I sometimes have fanciedthat I could hear a certain faintsqueak from the moving wings notonly of the Antiopa but also ofthe Semicolon butterfly—a sounddistinct from the mere rustle ofthe wing. But if our insect docsserenade with its wings, as stated, its method is not as above described. I dont knowfrom experience just how the European Antiopa is built,but there is no such file to be found upon the wing A BUTTERFLY SERENADE 33 of the American species, at least in the twenty or morespecimens that I have examined ; nor can the sweetsecrets or the trickle of a brooklet be coaxed outof any cabinet specimen of mine. I have several times heard of the prett
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