SOME BUTTERFLY FRIENDS 



away as if they knew all their work 

 was before them and they longed to be 

 at it. 



Of them all the monarch is not the 

 most beautiful, but I rank him as surely 

 the ablest. His annual migration shows 

 him to have wonderful strength of 

 wing, and either much wisdom or an 

 extraordinarily developed instinct. Very 

 likely he has both. Further, through 

 accident pure and simple, or else a spirit 

 of adventure fostered by the joys of 

 long annual journey, he is steadily ex- 

 tending his habitat to embrace the 

 known world. Originally of North 

 America only, he has within the last 

 dozen years taken ship for Australia, 

 where he has multiplied greatly in the 

 warmer regions, and has wandered again 

 over sea to Java, Sumatra, and followed 

 the flag into the Philippines. He is well 



