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but when the sun is about to set they are to be seen everywhere, 

 and are sometimes mistaken for bats. Every species has its own 

 peculiar habits as to flight, time of appearance, method of egg 

 deposition, etc. Some kinds wander from place to place and 

 flower to flower, and others live their whole life in a very limited 

 area. Butterflies often migrate in such numbers as to even ob- 

 scure the sun. These congregations are usually made up of a 

 single species. "A migration of butterflies was observed in 

 Switzerland on the loth of June, 1828: Madame de Meuron Wolff 

 and her family established during the Summer in the district of 

 Grandson, Canton de Vaud, perceived with surprise an immense 

 flight of butterflies traversing the garden with great rapidity. 

 They were all the species called Belle Dame by the French, and 

 by the English, Painted Lady ( Vanessa cardui}. They were all 

 flying close together in the same direction, from South to North, 

 and were so little afraid when one approached that they turned 

 not to the right or left. The flight continued for two hours without 

 interruption, and the column was about ten or fifteen feet broad." 

 Mr. Charles J. Anderson encountered in Southwestern Africa, 

 for two consecutive days, such immense myriads of lemon-colored 

 butterflies, that the sound caused by their wings was such as to 

 resemble "the distant murmuring of waves on the sea-shore." 

 They always passed in the same direction as the wind blew, and, 

 as numbers were constantly alighting on the flowers, their ap- 

 pearance at such times was not unlike "the falling of leaves 

 before a gentle autumnal breeze." Moufet says: " Wert thou 

 as strong as Milo or Hercules, and wert fenced or guarded about 

 with an host of giants for force and valor, remember that such 

 an army was put to the worst by an army of butterflies flying in 

 troops in the air in the year 1104, and they hid the light of the 

 sun like a cloud." ED. 



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