CHAPTER THREE 



THE BUTTERFLY AND MOTH FAMH^Y 



To the young nature student it often seems as 

 if the old naturahsts and professors who write 

 books he awake nights to think of difficulties which 

 they may put in the path of the amateur. They 

 rummage among their Latin and Greek diction- 

 aries to find long and impossible names to hitch on 

 to the tiniest and smallest of creatures, names 

 which no small boy may pronounce and which no 

 big boy loves. 



But do not think too ill of the old scientists — 

 they are good fellows at heart and they mean well. 

 You see they could not take the names which you 

 use for things because the boy in another State 

 uses different names for the same things. For in- 

 stance, the fish called a " bass " up north here, is 

 called a " trout " down south, the bird we call a 

 " bob-white " is called a quail in Ohio and a par- 

 tridge down south, while the ruffed grouse is also 

 called a partridge and a pheasant. 



This way of mixing things up drives natural- 

 ists to hard names; besides, if they should use 



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