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woods." Thus have I been rewarded for visiting this 

 nook. 



On my way home I capture the male of a dog's head 

 butterfly, Colias coesonia Stoll, fresh from its winter 



Fig. 60 Dog's Head Butterfly. 



(After French.) 



chrysalis. The yellow portion of the upper surface of 

 the front wing is so surrounded with black as to re- 

 semble a dog's head, the discal dot of black answering 

 for an eye. His is a wide range. 'Neath the tropical 

 sun of Mexico, the temperate sky of Indiana and the 

 blue of the Florida ether I have seen him winging his 

 onward way and have added him to my treasures. 



April 11, 1899. I am sitting as I write, on a 

 branch or fork of an old live oak near the center of 

 the mound of shells. At my right the roadway, sere 

 and brown with fallen leaves, leads onward between 

 rows of tall palmettos and lofty pines. On and on 



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