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mon barn swallow. There are over five hundred distinct forms 

 of these Swallow-tails; but in the eastern states no single species 

 is better known than the elegant yellow and black "Turnus" 

 or Tiger Swallow-tail of the Carolinian fauna. A fine example 

 of one of these is here reproduced from a photograph of mine 



Fig. 14. The Tiger Swallow-tail Butterfly, 

 resting on a flower of the Day Lily. 



in Figure 14. This splendid creature ranges through the low- 

 lands and forested areas of the Appalachian region, occurring 

 abundantly through the Carolinas, the Virginias, southwestern 

 Pennsylvania, and, to some extent, in Kentucky and Tennessee. 

 Sometimes one meets with it in numbers, either in the 

 open or hovering over wet places in roadways passing through 



