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graceful elegance displayed by this charming species, 

 when sailing on the wing, is greater perhaps than 

 can be found in any other we have in Britain. 

 There was an old Aurelian of London, so highly 

 delighted at the inimitable flight of Camilla, that 

 long after he was able to pursue her, he used to go 

 to the woods, and sit down on a stile, for the sole 

 purpose of feasting his eyes with her fascinating 

 evolutions." 



This species was plentiful in the year 1812, at 

 Bedstile Wood, near Finchley ; and the last speci- 

 men we ever saw on the wing was at Coombe Wood, 

 Surrey, in the year 1813, since which period it has 

 not appeared near London. 



