JULY 
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changeable purple^ is very fine. It has already become 
quite numerous^, especially near the little brook that crosses 
the road below the maple grove : this place^ from some cause 
which I am not aware of^ is a very favourite resort of many 
species of butterflies. 
Father. — I have noticed the same fact^ having seen spe- 
cies there that I had not met with anywhere else ; and on 
a fine summer day many kinds are always thronging that 
BALTIMORE FRITILLARY. 
(Melitcea Phaeton.) 
lane. I caught, a day or two ago, in that very spot, a 
beautiful little butterfly, the Baltimore Fritillary f Melitmi 
Phaeton ), It is the first specimen I have ever seen in 
