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THE MOURNING CLOAK il\n/fssa tviliopa) 

 Upper and under sides 



The Mourning Cloak, or, as the English call it, the Caniberwell 

 l>eaiit\', is brownish, edged with light underneath and blue-black- 

 brownish edged with yellow above. It is one of the few 1)utterflies 

 which pass our northern winters in the adult state, hidden securely 

 away in a hollow log or under a pile of fence rails. Its spiny young 

 feed on willow, ])o])lar, elm and the like. 



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