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NOTES AND LITERATURE 



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members li;ul (>ver schmi birds take butterflies. In the eastern United 

 States then^ h-.xxv hvvu liardly more than a dozen published records 

 of birds seen in tlie a<'r oF takinc^ butterflies. Birds, so far as I have 

 observed, seem to make no |)ra( ti( (> of j:civing chase to the butterflies 

 that float about tlicm a- thcv busily catch other insects. ButterHies 

 seem to be avoided, whether they arc indifferently colored, })rotectively 



