HISTORY 



BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, 



SWALLOW-TAIL. 



In all our judgments of objects of Natural History, comparison and 

 relative proportion must guide us to the result. Compared then with 

 multitudes of the exotic species whose dazzling refulgence, splendid 

 hues, elegant forms, and wonderfully varied and eccentric markings, 

 adorn the hills and valleys of far-distinct and tropical lands, which 

 these by themselves alone furnish an abundantly exciting wish to visit, 

 the present, our largest British Butterfly — our finest capture — holds 

 but an humble place — " a Satyr to Hyperion " almost, — a foil by their 

 side to their beauty : but we must not, and we do not, despise our 

 own Swallow-tail. 



This fine species is said to be found in various parts of Europe, 

 Asia, and Africa, namely in the whole of the former continent, and in 

 the second, even in Siberia, as also in Syria, Nepaul, Cachemere, and 

 the Himalayan Mountains ; Egypt, and the coast of Barbary. 



In our own country it has been met with in Yorkshire, near 

 Beverley and Cottingham ; in Dorsetshire, by J. C. Dale, Esq., in the 



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