314 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. 



American Goshawk. — Astur atricapillus. 

 Red-tailed Buzzard. — Buteo borealis. 

 Rough-legged Buzzard. — Archibuteo lagopus. 

 Passenger Pigeon. — Ectopistes migratoria. 

 Bartram's Sandpiper. — Actiturus bartramius. 

 Red-breasted Merganser. — Mergus serralor. 

 Gull-billed Tern. — Sterna anglica. 

 Manx Shearwater. — Puffinus anglorum. 



BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. 



Archippus (Danais archippus). — This large brown 

 Butterfly is common, and may be seen during every month 

 in the year. The larvae feed chiefly, if not entirely, on 

 Asclepias curassavica, which grows wild by the roadsides, 

 and is known by the improper name of " Ipecacuanha." 



The caterpillar of the Archippus is quite two inches 

 long, and encircled from one extremity to the other with 

 bands of black, white, and yellow. It makes no cocoon, 

 but suspends itself by a black ligament from the tail end 

 to stone walls and railings, and continues in the pupa state 

 exactly twenty days. The chrysalis is of a delicate pale 

 green colour, dotted in various parts with golden spots. 



The perfect insect is abundant throughout the year. 



October 10th, 1847. — Hundreds and hundreds of a small 

 yellow Butterfly, with brown tips to the wings, made their 

 appearance in all directions to-day. Also a very pretty 

 brown Moth with pink underwings. 



October i^rd. — A large brown Butterfly, with a white 

 margin round the wings, resembling the British " Camber- 



