deed; the fever of migration is 

 upon them. Their wings are 

 faded now, and many of them 

 broken, a sharp contrast to their 

 lovely perfection when first they 

 come, in the autumn. This 

 would tend to carry out the the- 

 ory that the young are raised 

 during the summer. They do 

 not leave their home in a body, 

 but very gradually their num- 

 bers decrease; on the other 

 hand, they appear in the au- 

 tumn in a relatively much 

 shorter space of time. For 

 some reason there are very few 

 butterflies of any variety in this 

 region during the summer, and 

 almost never is a Monarch 

 seen; there are surely flowers 

 enough to attract them, but 



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