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Rural School Leaflet. 



6. Do crows travel in flocks throughout the year? If not, when do 

 they separate? 



7. Where do crows spend the winter? 



8. What is meant by a crow roost? 



" My friend and neighbor through the year, 

 Self-appointed overseer 



Of my crops of fruit and grain, 

 Of my woods and furrowed plain. 



Claim thy tithings right and left, 



I shall never call it theft." — John Burroughs. 



THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY 



Anna Botsford Comstock 



In September the Monarch butterfly is quite common. It is easily 

 distinguished from other butterflies because of its brilliant copper-red 

 color, its large size, and its slow, indolent, fearless flight. It shows 

 by its every movement that it is not afraid of birds. 



On the upper side, the central portion of each wing is brilliant copper- 

 red ; the veins are narrowly outlined in black and the edges bordered in 



black. The triangular tip 

 of the front wing is black, 

 spotted with pale orange. 

 The black margins of the 

 wings are set with double 

 dots of white, two pairs 

 between each two veins, 

 and the edges are marked 

 with white to correspond. 

 Below, the front wings 

 are copper-red on the 

 hind margin covered by 



the lower wings, while 

 Fig. ii.-M anarch butterfly ^j^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^j^^ 



hind wings and the tips of the front wings is buff; the veins are more 

 strongly marked with black than on the upper sides, and the white 

 dots in the black borders are large. The body is black with numer- 

 ous white dots, especially on the under side. The antennae are about 

 two-thirds as long as the body, and each is tipped with a long knob. 

 Sometimes an imprisoned butterfly will partake of the nectar if flowefs, 



