ZODIACAL CONSTELLATIONS. 
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“Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow 
shade, 
Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.” 
Orion, southwest of Taurus, though not in the 
zodiac, is so near it that a word may be added. Four 
Fig. 82.—Equatorial constellations. (Fourth group.) 
bright stars in the form of a parallelogram suggest 
his outline. Betelguese,. a star of the first magni¬ 
tude, is in the right shoulder, and another of the first 
magnitude is in the knee. “ The Bands of Orion ” 
show his girdle. They are so called because they are 
